One was used to transport water, and so far nothing strange, the other still had lime: all almost normal except that they belonged to a leather tanning workshop about 2600-2700 years ago. The nuraghe Sirai in Carbonia does not cease to reserve surprises as demonstrated by the two amphorae found in the compartment dedicated to what in the mists of time was a sort of artisan area of antiquity.
The two amphorae (one integrates the other unfortunately not) for the first time are now exhibited at the Archaeological Museum of Villa Sulcis in Carbonia as part of the successful initiative entitled the "Find of the month". That is, every month an absolutely unpublished find is exhibited, the result of excavation campaigns led by the archaeologist Carla Perra.
The amphorae are, if there was still no need, the testimony that the immediate areas of the nuraghe Sirai (near which there is the plateau with the Phoenician-Punic citadel) housed craft workshops: the first, of Phoenician tradition, was used in the leather workshop to store water, the latter had a lime content and was useful for the tanning process.
