Editing Sulci (section)

==Origins==
[[File:Sulky arcaica.jpg|thumb|Hypothetical reconstruction of Sulci during the Early Phoenician period]] 
[[File:Leone (Sulcis).jpg|thumb|Lion statues]]
The foundation of Sulci ([[Punic language|Punic]]:{{nbsp}}{{sc|slky}})<ref>{{citation |last=Bernardini |first=Paolo |contribution=Sulky/Sulcis |title=Der Neue Pauly |volume=Supplement II, Band 10 |date=2015 |location=Stuttgart |publisher=J.B. Metzlersche }}. {{in lang|de}}</ref> is expressly attributed to the [[Carthaginians]] (Paus. x. 17. § 9; [[Claudian]], ''B. Gild.'' 518), and it seems to have become under that people one of the most considerable cities of Sardinia, and one of the chief seats of their power in the island. However, as noted by archaeologists the city was founded by Tyrians during the late 9th century BCE, and most of the inhabitants were probably native Sardinians, it remained independent until Carthage conquered it in the late 6th century BCE<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.comune.santantioco.ca.it/cms/la-storia/sulky-fenicia-e-punica.html |title=Sulky Fenicia e Punica Sulky Fenicia e Punica, punici e fenici a sant'antioco |language=it  |trans-title=Sulky Phoenician and Punica, Punic and Phoenician in sant'antioco |website=www.comune.santantioco.ca.it |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180927162308/http://www.comune.santantioco.ca.it:80/cms/la-storia/sulky-fenicia-e-punica.html |archive-date=27 September 2018}}</ref> Its name was first mentioned in history during the [[First Punic War]], when the Carthaginian general, [[Hannibal Gisco]], having been defeated in a sea-fight (the [[Battle of Sulci]], 258 BCE) by [[Gaius Sulpicius Paterculus]], took refuge at Sulci, but was slain in a tumult by his own soldiers ([[Joannes Zonaras|Zonaras]] viii. 12).