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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <lookwhoscross-eyednow@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 7:49 PM
> Subject: Re:Re: [tied] Lusitanians
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> > I know that there's the name of Arganthonios, the king of
Tartessos, but that's usually seen as being Celtic, containing the
root word for silver, but could it have been a non-Celtic Indo-
European name as well? (Lusitanian?)
>
> Who can tell? :-(
>
> Piotr
Besides the King of Tartessos, there was a Mount Arganthonios in
Bithynia. It was visited by the famous biologist Ernst Haeckel in
the 1870's.
http://www.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/~stueber/haeckel/olymp/
Adolf Schulten
http://www.bibliodt.org/nou/bdt/llibre/llibres/tarraco/capitulos/etru
sca.html
associates King A and Mount A, and makes them both Etruscan (which
seems pretty unlikely to me).
Can anyone tell me anything about Mount A (I haven't even found
the ancient reference). Is it relevant to King A?
Dan