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‖ taula Archæol.|ˈtaʊlə|
[Cat., f. L. tabula table.]
A Bronze Age stone structure found on Minorca in the Balearic Islands, consisting of two slabs forming a T-shaped column, freq. enclosed by a horseshoe-shaped wall and believed to be a place of worship.
1881R. L. Playfair Handbk. Mediterranean ii. 459/2 A bi-lithon, or altar, composed of two immense monoliths,..carefully dressed, called Altar or Taula, altar or table. 1911M. S. Boyd Fortunate Isles xvi. 192 Just behind the talayot..stands another relic of prehistoric times in the shape of a taula. 1932Discovery July 238/2 Minorca possesses a form of megalithic structure which does not occur elsewhere. This is the taula, a table consisting of a slab of stone set upright in a groove in the flat rock-floor. 1950Antiquity XXIV. 154 These excavations might have solved the problems of the date and purpose of the constructions known as ‘taulas’. 1979Service & Bradbery Megaliths vii. 134 The largest taula (the name means ‘table’ in Catalan..)..is beside the talayot of Trepuco. Ibid., As with all taulas, it is very broad in one dimension, very narrow in the other. |