In the room where the female statue-menhir known as the “Mother Goddess,” originating from the hill in the Lodduo area, is displayed, there is also a second statue-menhir with masculine features. It was accidentally recovered in the 1980s among the ruins along the southern flank of the trilobed tholos nuraghe of Arasseda, located on the Pranu Olisa plateau near the town of Allai, in the historic-geographical region of Barigadu on the border with Mandrolisai.
This imposing sculpture, carved from pink trachyte now patinated with grey, has an ogival outline and is broken at both ends. On its front face, low-relief motifs are visible, and in the upper third appears a T-shaped facial schema with a prominently developed nose, joined by two eyebrow ridges. Beneath this carved “epigraphic” composition lies an elliptical frame. Despite the stone’s surface flaking in several areas, the decoration appears to be original.
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