But there is some evidence that the ethnonym may predate the Iron Age, based on the name Shekelesh given to one of the Sea Peoples in the Great Karnak Inscription (late 13th century BCE).
Sicels |
The Sicels and Messene were to remain free of Carthaginian and Syracusan influence, as was Leontini.
The early settlers – the Sicels, who inhabited the island before the Greeks worshipped the God of wine Adranus.