Historical place profile
Sulci(s)
A site with Phoenician origins (founded ca. 730-700 B.C.) located in southwestern Sardinia. Site of a Roman naval victory against Carthage by Gaius Sulpicius Paterculus in 258 B.C. during the First Punic War.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:472024
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:472024
- Place type
- cemetery, port, settlement
- Coordinates
- 39.071486, 8.451474
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
A site with Phoenician origins (founded ca. 730-700 B.C.) located in southwestern Sardinia. Site of a Roman naval victory against Carthage by Gaius Sulpicius Paterculus in 258 B.C. during the First Punic War.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 48 A3 Sulci(s)
Source and reuse
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Research path
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