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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Punic coins not only concentrated in Kent, but also Dorset, which is interesting given the Iron Age port at Poole...https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/745360371377119234 …
Reading your tweets is like being on an excellent free postgrad course in Ancient History, which I hope is a compliment.
Very kind of you to say :)
Carthaginian coin of c.300-264 BC, featuring the head of Tanit—found on the Lincolnshire Wolds: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/190621 …pic.twitter.com/bddtl4Jiys
V interesting, thanks! Not so strange as one might think. In C5/6 AD, Mediterranean ships seem to have been sailing directly to W Britain.
Was that part of the broze age tin trade?That would make sense?
I think that the tin trade is supposed to have brought the ships here in C5/6 AD - perhaps earlier, too?
Tin trade def factor in 5th-6thC AD, plus is mentioned in early 7thC Byzantine sources (still ref'd by Arabic writers in 13thC!) Earlier >
>, pre-Roman tin trade mentioned in textual sources and prob reason for Carthaginian coins (see article at top of thread). In support, can >
> now also cite isotopic evidence for ppl from N. Africa in Iron Age Britain, early anchors etc: https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/637703618725040128 … :)
A Siculo-Punic coin with the head of Tanit, minted in Carthage or Sicily c. 320–280 BC, again found in East Kent near Dover: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/853984 …pic.twitter.com/RtEzXH5VZl
A statue of Tanit with movable arms, 5th-/4th-century BC, from the necropolis of Puig des Molins, Ibiza: https://hr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datoteka:Representació_guarnida_de_la_deessa_Tànit.JPG …pic.twitter.com/4Pq76iMZ8V
Was there some kind of mechanism for moving them around during worship/rituals, or did they slot in to create different poses? I'm fascinated.
I think the later, but will check! :)
Probably brought back by a Cantiaci hen party! #nothingchanges
As in the young woman in the Hammer film The devil rides out ?
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