SULCI  , an

ancient town (mod . S . Antioco), situated on the east coast of an island on the south-west of Sardinia . The date of its foundationis not known, but it is certainly of Carthaginian origin . The assumption that it was originally an Egyptian colony is not justified . Its walls, of large rectangular blocks of stone, can be traced for a circuit of upwards of a mile: it extended to the low ground on the shore near the modern cemetery, where a dedicatory inscription set up by the people of Sulci in honour of 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 Roman antiquities, including several statues2 and inscriptions and many smaller objects, gems, &c., but at present few traces of ancient buildings are left, owing to their continued destruction in medieval and modern times . A cistern of fine masonry, perhaps dating from the Punic period, 2 A statue of Drusus, the brother of Tiberius (?) was found in 1908 .