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Since April 2026, the entire Mont’e Prama statuary complex has been on display at Giovanni Marongiu Civic Museum in Cabras.
Mont’e Prama statues are among the oldest examples of statuary in the Mediterranean, and the only stone statuary from the Nuragic period discovered to date. The anthropomorphic sculptures are all male and mostly depict singular “boxers” with armed gloves and protective shields held above their heads, with a smaller number of classical archers with bows slung over their shoulders and warriors with round shields. Other sculptures depict nuraghes, which at that time (900-700 BC) were already ancient but still alive as emblems and symbols of cultural identity.
The statues come from Mont’e Prama archaeological site, in the municipality of Cabras, in the central part of the Sinis Peninsula, west of Cabras lagoon. The area was discovered in 1974, when the first fragments of sculptures emerged from the ploughing of a field.
