Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Sardus" in English language version.
The close relationship between Melqart and Sid on Sardinia is confirmed in the work of the second-century-AD Greek travel writer Pausanias, who claimed that 'The first sailors to cross to the island are said to have been Libyans. Their leader was Sardus, son of Maceris, the Maceris surnamed Heracles by the Egyptians and the Libyans.' 'Sardus Pater' was the name that Sid Babi came to be known by in the Roman epoch, and 'Maceris' almost certainly refers to Melqart, the Libyan Heracles. Indeed, epigraphic evidence points to the two gods having been closely linked with one another in Carthage.
The only truly 'indigenous' divinity, however it is reinterpreted a posteriori, was Sardus Pater-Babi, founding hero and 'demiurge benefactor', which Classical mythographers held to be the son of the African Heracles (Melqart-Makeris), who in turn was said to have reached Sardinia from Libya.
