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The Nuraghic people had already chosen this hill as a place of worship. The solemnity of the place and its sacredness convinced the Punics to erect a temple there in the VI century B.C. The Romans built a bigger one in III B.C. and restored it to the temple of Caracal ( 211-217 A.D.).
An inscription cites: Imp[eratori] Caes[ari] M. Aurelio Antonino Augusto P[io] F[elici] Templum Dei Sardi Patris Bab[..] from which it is evident, closely researched by scholars, that this site is the Shrine to Sardus Pater. The temple has a tripartite plan, vestibule, mid compartment, geminate penetralia with two opposing basins for the Holy water.
Digs have rendered a large number of coins, ceramics, ornaments, grains of gold and bronze figures, but above all the temple of Antas has rendered a great number of epigraphs, almost a third of those that have been found in Sardinia.
