Modellazione 3D e Beni Culturali: su alcuni altari "a corna" da Tharros (Cabras, OR)

The discovery at Tharros in 1968 of four stone blocks worked in relief raises several questions regarding the function and cultural-historical framing of the finds. The initial reading as horned altars of Palestinian type, associated with a dating to the Punic age, does not have a general consensus among scholars, who were sometimes more inclined to hypothesize an architectural value and a dating to the Late Antique period. Starting from a 3D digital restitution and virtual restoration of the artifacts, new evidence is provided here to support the interpretation as altars and the possible transmission of the model as part of the spread of Isiac cults in the Hellenistic and Roman Sardinia.