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low ground below the See also:modern See also:town, may be mentioned. See also:Close to it, among the houses of the modern town, a solid See also:base about 25 ft. square, belonging possibly to a lighthouse or a See also:tomb, records the existence of a See also:temple of See also:Isis and See also:Serapis during the imperial See also:period. A bilingual inscription of the 1st See also:century B.C. (?) in Latin and in neo-Punic records the erection of a statue to Himilkat, who had carried out a See also:decree of the See also:local senatus for the erection of a temple to a goddess (described in the Punic version as domina dea—possibly Tanit herself) by his son Himilkat (T. See also:Mommsen in Corp. incr. See also:lat. x. 7513, 7514). The Phoenician tombs consist of a chamber cut in the See also:rock, measuring about 14 ft. square and 8 ft. high, and approached by a See also:staircase: some of these have been converted into dwellings in modern times. Many of the curious sculptured stelae found in these tombs are now in the museum of Cagliari. On many of them the goddessTanit is represented, often in a See also:form resembling Isis, which gave rise to the unfounded belief of the See also:Egyptian origin of See also:Sulci. The See also:Roman tombs, on the other See also:hand, are simply trenches excavated in the rock. There are also several catacombs: a See also:group still exists under the See also:church, in which was discovered the See also:body of the See also:martyr St See also:Antiochus, from whom the modern town takes its name. The church is cruciform, with heavy pillars between See also:nave and aisles, and a See also:dome over the See also:crossing: it belongs to the See also:Byzantine period, and contains an inscription of Torcotorius, protospatarius and Salusius, apxwv, dating from the loth century A.U.

(A. Taramelli in Archivio storico sardo, 1907, 83 sqq.). Others farther See also:

south-See also:west were Jewish; they have See also:inscriptions in red painted on the See also:plaster with which they are lined, and the seven-branched See also:candlestick occurs several times. The fort which occupies the highest point—no doubt the See also:acropolis of the Punic period—is quite modern. The See also:long, low See also:isthmus which, with the help of See also:bridges, connects the See also:island with the mainland, is very likely in See also:part or entirely of artificial origin; but neither it nor the bridges show any definite traces of Roman date. On either See also:side of it See also:ships could find shelter then as nowadays. The origin of Sulci is attributed by See also:Pausanias to the Carthaginians, and the Punic antiquities found there go to indicate the correctness of his See also:account. It is mentioned in the account of the First Punic See also:War as the See also:place at which the Carthaginian See also:admiral See also:Hannibal took See also:refuge after his defeat by C. Sulpicius, but was crucified. In 46 B.C. the See also:city was severely punished by See also:Caesar for the assistance given to See also:Pompey's admiral Nasidius. Under the See also:empire it was one of the most flourishing cities of See also:Sardinia. It was attacked by the See also:Vandals and See also:Saracens, but ceased to exist before the 13th century.

Previously to this it had been one of the four episcopal See also:

sees into which Sardinia was divided. A See also:castle in the low ground, attributed to the See also:index Torcotorius, to the south of the modern town, was destroyed in modern times. See A. Tarawelli in Notizie degli scavi (1906), 135; (1908), 145, 192. (T.

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