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SULCI , an See also:ancient See also:town (mod. S. Antioco), situated on the See also:east See also:coast of an See also:island on the See also:south-See also:west of See also:Sardinia. The date of its foundationis not known, but it is certainly of Carthaginian origin. The See also:assumption that it was originally an See also:Egyptian See also:colony is not justified. Its walls, of large rectangular blocks of See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone, can be traced for a See also:circuit of upwards of a mile: it extended to the See also:low ground on the See also:shore near the See also:modern See also:cemetery, where a dedicatory inscription set up by the See also:people of Sulci in See also:honour of See also:Hadrian in A.D. 128 was found (F. Vivanet in Notizie degli Scavi, 1897, 407). Various discoveries have been made within the circuit, both of Phoenician and of See also:Roman antiquities, including several statues2 and See also:inscriptions and many smaller See also:objects, gems, &c., but at See also:present few traces of ancient buildings are See also:left, owing to their continued destruction in See also:medieval and modern times. A cistern of See also:fine See also:masonry, perhaps dating from the Punic See also:period,
2 A statue of See also:Drusus, the See also:brother of Tiberius (?) was found in 1908.
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