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
History, archaeology, place-names & early lit. Main research on post-Roman Britain & Anglo-Saxon England; also long-distance trade, migration & contact.
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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
Suggestion is that name Thanet is Punic 'Y TNT, 'Isle (of) Tanit', the Carthaginian goddess--prob orig name of island Cadiz built on too :)
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/0YbftvsLb1
A coin struck at the Phoenician colony of Ebusus (Ibiza), c.210-190 BC, found nr Canterbury, Kent: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/787709 …pic.twitter.com/l3NaV2yUWO
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 >
Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green
> now also cite isotopic evidence for ppl from N. Africa in Iron Age Britain, early anchors etc: https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/637703618725040128 … :)
Dr Caitlin Green added,
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