Sandetole memorial stone

Description

Discovered in the winter of 2000 during work carried out at Sandetole, in the municipality of Dicomano, in yellow-gray sandstone dating to the 6th century BC. It is a truncated pyramidal cippus with a bulbous termination. In the four faces we notice frames with no decoration inside them. The lower part is rough-hewn and unfinished. Typical cippus distinguished by its prismatic body and surmounted by a spheroidal bulb-shaped crowning. The Cippus is one of the few examples of monuments in the series that are undecorated; if we remove the tabs below the crowning, tapering upward it takes on a truncated pyramid shape with four faces. This suggests that the trapezoidal stelae seen above are a reduction to a single face of the cippus, although the manner and significance of this relationship remain uncertain and no clear succession between stelae and cippus can be established at present.