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in the low ground below the modern town, may be mentioned. Close to it, among the houses of the modern town, a solid base about 25 ft. square, belonging possibly to a lighthouse or a tomb, records the existence of a temple of Isis and Serapis during the imperial period. A bilingual inscription of the 1st century B.C. (?) in Latin and in neo-Punic records the erection of a statue to Himilkat, who had carried out a decree of the local senatus for the erection of a temple to a goddess (described in the Punic version as domina deapossibly Tanit herself) by his son Himilkat (T. Mommsen in Corp. incr. lat. x. 7513, 7514). The Phoenician tombs consist of a chamber cut in the rock, measuring about 14 ft. square and 8 ft. high, and approached by a 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 form resembling Isis, which gave rise to the unfounded belief of the Egyptian origin of Sulci. The Roman tombs, on the other hand, are simply trenches excavated in the rock.
There are also several catacombs: a group still exists under the church, in which was discovered the

body

BODY

of the

martyr

MARTYR (Gr. pimp or µaprvs)

St Antiochus, from whom the modern town takes its name. The church is cruciform, with heavy pillars between

nave

NAVE

and aisles, and a

dome

DOME (Lat domus,
house
- HOUSE
- HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
  Gothic
  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
; Ital. duomo, cathedral)

over the crossing: it belongs to the 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

south

SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

-west were Jewish; they have

inscriptions

INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

in red painted on the plaster with which they are lined, and the seven-branched candlestick occurs several times. The fort which occupies the highest pointno doubt the

acropolis

ACROPOLIS (Gr. aKpos, top, a6)Xts, city)

of the Punic periodis quite modern. The long, low isthmus which, with the help of bridges, connects the island with the mainland, is very likely in part or entirely of artificial origin; but neither it nor the bridges show any definite traces of Roman date. On either side of it ships could find shelter then as nowadays.
The origin of Sulci is attributed by Pausanias to the Carthaginians, and the Punic antiquities found there go to indicate the correctness of his account. It is mentioned in the account of the First Punic War as the place at which the Carthaginian admiral Hannibal took

refuge

REFUGE

after his defeat by C. Sulpicius, but was crucified. In 46 B.C. the city was severely punished by Caesar for the assistance given to Pompey's admiral Nasidius. Under the empire it was one of the most flourishing cities of Sardinia. It was attacked by the Vandals and Saracens, but ceased to exist before the 13th century. Previously to this it had been one of the four episcopal sees into which Sardinia was divided. A castle in the low ground, attributed to the index Torcotorius, to the

south

SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

of the modern town, was destroyed in modern times.
See A. Tarawelli in Notizie degli scavi (1906), 135; (1908), 145, 192.
(T. As.)

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