Thanet, Tanit & the Phoenicians: Names, Archaeology & Pre-Roman Trading Settlements in Kent? http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/04/thanet-tanit-and-the-phoenicians.html …pic.twitter.com/Npezp0bx9f
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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 …
@caitlinrgreen hmm it is looking to be trading up the west coast. Iceland reciprocating? Then down North Sea? Too much to say Atlantic :-0)
@HyettNeal Well, may be much modern loss, but *if* was pre-Roman loss then cf suggestion of Proto-Semitic origin for name 'Hebrides' etc?
@HyettNeal (incidentally, earliest evidence for significant human activity on Iceland is early medieval, c. 8thC AD, tho' cf. Pytheas etc)
@caitlinrgreen Makes the trade theory stronger by every passing day
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