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A mysterious people called the Elymians settled in western Sicily around the 11th century BCE[7]. The Greeks imagined that the Eymians were refugees from the Trojan War. Their language has never been deciphered; only a few fragmentary inscriptions in Greek letters survive. The city of Segesta was their capital. They adopted Greek culture and customs, although they were often under Carthaginian rule. A magnificent unfinished Doric-style temple and a Greek theater carved into a hillside still survive on the site. Segestan coinage in silver[8] and bronze[9] begins in the fifth century BCE, and it invariably bears an image of a hunting dog that closely resembles the modern Sicilian hound: a slim, long-legged beast with pointed ears and a curled tail. The Sicilian hound closely resembles the “Pharaoh hound” of ancient Egypt[10].