Its name says it all.
The domus de janas S’Incantu, the enchantment, is one of the most spectacular painted or carved domus uncovered on the island. The hypogeum is part of the necropolis of Monte Siseri, in the district of Putifigari and is the only one that can be visited. Internally, neolithic art is at its best thanks to architectural complexity and harmony, as well as a wealth and variety of decorations and colours.
Brought to light in 1989, the painted architecture tomb is home to articulated and sophisticated sculptural details. It has a T-shaped layout, made up of rooms in sequence with staggered flooring: a long dromos (corridor) ending in a decorated atrium; a small quadrangular anti-cell, with a two-metre side; a vast central cell and, on the sides, two funeral cells. On the side walls of the anti-cell, we find two false doors, carved and painted red, a symbol of the passage of the souls from the earthly world to the world beyond. Partially collapsed, the carved ceiling simulates a double pitch roof.
The central room has a ceiling that is more than two metres high which, carved in relief, replicates a double pitch roof. We find the fireplace at the centre of the floor made up of four concentric cornices and a central chapel. The wall opposite the entrance shows a false door, it too framed and overhung with triple bull’s horns. Another pair of horns have been engraved on either side. The sculptural details are enhanced and highlighted by the polychromy (red and grey).
There are cupels, tanks and channels carved outside the hypogeum, along the rock bank which prevented the rainwater from penetrating the tomb.
