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Mozia was probably interested in the explorations of the Phoenician merchant-surveyors, who pushed themselves into the western Mediterranean Sea, starting from the end of the 12th century B.C.: it had to represent a landing point and a commercial base morphologically very similar to the Phoenician city of Tyre. The ancient name in Phoenician was Mtw, Mtw or Hmtw, as it results from the monetary legends; the name reported in Greek, Motye, Μοτύη, is also quoted by Thucydides and Diodorus Siculus. Around the middle of the 8th century B.C., with the beginning of the Greek colonization in Sicily, Thucydides reports that the Phoenicians retreated to the western part of the island, more exactly to the three cities of their foundation: Mozia, Solunto and Palermo. Archaeologically there is evidence of a settlement at the end of the 8th century B.C., preceded by a sporadic and rather modest protohistoric phase. The fortifications surrounding the island may be connected to the Greek expeditions to western Sicily of Pentatlo and Dorieo in the 6th century BC.

In 400 B.C. Dionysius of Syracuse took and destroyed the city at the beginning of his campaign to conquer the Elymian and Punic cities of western Sicily; the following year Mozia was taken back by the Carthaginians, but lost importance as a consequence of the foundation of Lilybaeum. After the battle of the Egadi Islands in 241 B.C. all Sicily came under Roman rule, with the exception of Syracuse: Mozia must have been almost completely abandoned, since only very few traces of new frequentation have been found there, generally single villas of Hellenistic or Roman times. Of valuable value are instead finds from the Phoenician period such as the Youth of Mozia and the so-called "Stele of the King of Mozia", among the fruits of a fifty-year archaeological mission of the University La Sapienza led first by Antonia Ciasca and then by Lorenzo Nigro.

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