The ‘Atlantic Fringe’ hypothesis for the Celtic homeland and the Tartessian inscriptions (original) (raw)

Over the last couple of decades, a series of inscriptions in a language dubbed 'Tartessian'´ have been unearthed in south-western Iberia. These inscriptions are written in a south-western Iberian writing system, which was imported from the Phoenician colony of Gadir. The archaeological context of these findings allows us to date these inscriptions to the 7th and 6th centuries BC 1 . The inscriptions are connected with the historical kingdom of Tartessos, which according to Herodotos was ruled by a rich king called Argantonios between 625 and 545 BC.