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Author Topic: 2 Bolskan denarii, which one do you like more?  (Read 6194 times)

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Offline Robert_Brenchley

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Re: 2 Bolskan denarii, which one do you like more?
« Reply #25 on: June 24, 2009, 04:52:25 pm »
Is this related to the "sea people" who appear at times in Egyptian, Cretan and Mycenean history? It would be definitely interesting to know more

The Phoenicians, who settles along the south coast of Spain, were descended from the Canaanites, and were thus another West Semitic people. So that's another possibility. On a quick look, I can't see anything to suggest that the sea people settled in the western Mediterranean. That doesn't necessarily mean they weren't present though. Is there any archaeological evidence to suggest that they were?
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Re: 2 Bolskan denarii, which one do you like more?
« Reply #26 on: June 24, 2009, 05:08:22 pm »
Is this related to the "sea people" who appear at times in Egyptian, Cretan and Mycenean history? It would be definitely interesting to know more

The Phoenicians, who settles along the south coast of Spain, were descended from the Canaanites, and were thus another West Semitic people. So that's another possibility. On a quick look, I can't see anything to suggest that the sea people settled in the western Mediterranean. That doesn't necessarily mean they weren't present though. Is there any archaeological evidence to suggest that they were?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeastern_Iberian_script

Suffice it to say, this script is derived from Phoenician, not Hebrew.

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Re: 2 Bolskan denarii, which one do you like more?
« Reply #27 on: June 25, 2009, 06:02:01 pm »
Suffice it to say, this script is derived from Phoenician, not Hebrew.

hat's what I suspected. It looks more like Runic than Hebrew!
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