Thomas Ashby, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 18… (1911)
“ MOTYA, an ancient Phoenician settlement in Sicily, on a low island [mod. S. Pantaleo] , 5 m. north of Lilybaeum [mod. Marsala] . It was the centre of the Phoenician trade in Sicily. It was accessible from the mainland by a mole, which is still used as a track for wagons. The line of the city wall, of rough rectangular blocks of stone without mortar, may still be traced all round the coast, with two gates, one on the north towards the mole, which is still in part preserved, and one on the south. ”
