The Phoenician Mediterranean
Tides of History
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Welva - The Phoenician Presence in Iberia
We really don't know exactly who these earliest westward explorers and merchants were. It's common to assume that they were Phoenicians because the Phoenician presence in Iberia became so marked from such an early date. At Welva, the late 10th and early 9th century layers of the settlement have produced about 8,000 sherds of pottery. About half of those sherds are of indigenous Iberian manufacture and half are before it. Of the foreign pottery, three quarters of it is Phoenician in origin,. with the remainder Greek, specifically Ubean, and Cyprian.
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