Adra, Iberia · c. 8th c. BCE
Abdera
ʿbdrt
Tuna on the reverse
Adra. Abdera. Cerro de Montecristo above the old river. A smaller Tyrian door on the eastern Andalusian coast, with its own coins and its own hill.
Adra, on Abdera’s coast
Modern harbor on the shore of Phoenician Abdera · Cerro de Montecristo behind the town
The hill of Montecristo holds the Tyrian town; this is the water it faced
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Gad Yaton: Tuna on the reverse. A smaller door on the same Iberian string. Honest: the promenade is later. The coast is not.
Montecristo
The Tyrian town sat on Cerro de Montecristo, east of present Adra, at the old mouth of the river. Walls, houses, metalwork from the seventh century. Later a Roman municipium. The photograph is the later seafront — honest: the promenade is ours only as water. The hill behind the town is the door.
Abdera issued coins with a temple — likely Melqart — and tuna on the reverse, the same fish-craft as Sexi.
The end of the string
From Gadir through Malaka and Sexi the coast runs east to this hill, then on toward Carthago Nova. We do not invent ten more Iberian URLs. This is enough to say the string was real.
A smaller door is still a door.
Tuna and a temple
The coins are the object: a shrine — Melqart, by the habit of this coast — and tuna on the reverse. Fish-craft as at Sexi. A hill as at Malaka. The present promenade is later water. Cerro de Montecristo is the town.
They kept Adra as a later harbor. They forgot the hill. East of Sexi the string does not vanish. It ends in a named door.
Gad Yaton: not every door is Tyre. Some are a hill, a river mouth, tuna on the metal. That is still the road.