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A Greek handbook lists what Phoenician traders carried to Cerne

about 340 BCE · approximate · African

400 to 301 BCEGinen1 source
about 340 BCE · Africanapproximate

A Greek handbook lists what Phoenician traders carried to Cerne

Ivory, hides and wine change hands on an Atlantic island nobody has since located.

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A Greek commercial handbook of about 340 BC, later wrongly credited to Skylax, placed the island of Cerne twelve days' sail from the Straits of Gibraltar and said no ship could get past it for shallows, mud and weed. Phoenician merchants moored there, pitched tents on the island and ferried goods to the mainland in small boats. They took away hides of deer, lion, leopard and cattle, and the hides and tusks of elephants. The people they dealt with used ivory ornaments and cups, put ivory anklets on their women and ivory decoration on their horses, drove chariots, and made a great deal of wine from vines, which the merchants also carried off. In return came perfume, Egyptian stone, Attic pottery and jars. The tents suggest that the permanent colony Hanno had planted on Cerne was already abandoned. Cerne has never been located.

CerneWest Africa
Where this comes from Fage, J. D. (1978). The Cambridge history of Africa, Volume 2: From c. 500 BC to AD 1050. Cambridge University Press. p. 138.
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