A Carthaginian coin with the head of Tanit, found Kent but minted in the 3rdC BC in Sardinia https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/266577 …pic.twitter.com/M4H8HdYXPQ
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A Carthaginian coin with the head of Tanit, found Kent but minted in the 3rdC BC in Sardinia https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/266577 …pic.twitter.com/M4H8HdYXPQ
Here's the PAS record for the 3rdC Carthaginian coin found between Bath & Bristol that featured in the media, btw: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/534879 …
Suggestion is that name Thanet is Punic 'Y TNT, 'Isle (of) Tanit', the Carthaginian goddess--prob orig name of island Cadiz built on too :)
One of several names that recent work suggests could derive from Proto-Semitic/Punic roots--another is Rame Head, IA fort by Plymouth Sound.
This prehistoric cem on Thanet is intriguing, btw: 20% appear to have grown up in Med, poss. N Africa/SW Iberia...https://www.academia.edu/10479964/Cliffs_End_Farm_Isle_of_Thanet_Kent._A_mortuary_and_ritual_site_of_the_Bronze_Age_Iron_Age_and_Anglo-Saxon_Period_with_evidence_for_long-distance_maritime_mobility …
Amber beads from E6-7thC Anglo-Saxon cemetery that was also found at Cliffs End, Thanet, Kent https://www.flickr.com/photos/wessexarchaeology/51568414/in/photostream/ …pic.twitter.com/K37xt4A0v4
@caitlinrgreen ahhh so beautiful marvellous
@Umarkarim89 a different kind of beauty to the gold or the amethyst from yesterday, but still gorgeous :)
@caitlinrgreen I was gifted with very beautiful rings but only when i was born and even if i wore them dont remember now :)
@Umarkarim89 interesting---family heirlooms?! :)
@caitlinrgreen My uncle (late) brought for me a ring but lost in the bus but then some passengers found it and he came with the ring :)
@caitlinrgreen so perhaps that ring was written 4 me in destiny.Muslim men r forbidden to wear gold so they wear silver rings bt 4 babies ok
For interest, a 7thC BC seal w/ Phoenician inscription, found in 19thC at Dundrum, N. Ireland: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1553740&partId=1&place=42363&matcult=15652&page=1 …pic.twitter.com/RnyWb2LLDx
Inscription reads 'Belonging to 'Abd'Il'ib, son of Shib'at, servant of Mititti, son of Ṣidqa', further details here:https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=q6uJ1qgYabEC&pg=PA162&lpg=PA162#v=onepage&q&f=true …
A rather nice map of the Isle of Thanet and Sandwich Marsh as it appeared in 1548: http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/unvbrit/a/001cotaugi00001u00054000.html …pic.twitter.com/gEpUi4sK1q
Also Mousehole in Cornwall long rumoured to derive from Phoenician words for 'fresh water' like various Mosuls in Middle-east
Nice idea! Oliver Padel confidently assigns to Old English, unlike Rame which he leaves inexplicable (cf. Ramallah etc), >
>so it would fall into a different category of names+thus be subject to caution (i.e. ones w/ possible non-PrSem etymology)
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