Decimoputzu has 4,315 inhabitants in the plain of the Campidano of Cagliari, crossed by the Flumini Mannu. Its name holds two languages together: the Latin of the milestone ad decimum lapidem, the tenth mile on the road from Carales to Sulki, and the Campidanese putzu, that is well. In the hypogeum of Sant'Iroxi, which people here call the tomb of the warriors, in 1987 nineteen blades of swords and daggers in arsenical copper came to light: they are among the oldest swords known in Sardinia.
From the same territory come the ivory head of a statuette of a Mycenaean soldier, a sign of exchanges with the Aegean, and the bronze hoard of Monte Idda. The village appears for the first time in 1089, when Orzocco Torchitorio I, judge of Cagliari, gave the church of San Giorgio to the monks of Saint Victor of Marseille; the present name is read only from 1414. On the municipal coat of arms, beside the ears of wheat, stands the alabaster statuette of a female divinity found in the fields of the village.
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