Editing Tarshish (section)

==Other ancient and classical-era sources==
[[File:The World as Peopled by the Descendants of Noah Shewing the Countries Possessed by Shem, Ham & Japhet and their posterity after the confusion of tongues..jpg|thumb|right|300px|The 19th-century "World as Peopled by [[Generations of Noah|the Descendants of Noah]]", showing "Tarshish" as [[Cilicia|the countryside]] around [[Tarsus, Mersin|Tarsus]] in southeastern [[Anatolia]]]]

* Esarhaddon, Aššur Babylon E (AsBbE)<ref>=K18096 and EŞ6262 in the British Museum and Istanbul Archaeological Museum, respectively</ref> preserves "All the kings from the lands surrounded by sea – from the country Iadanana (Cyprus) and Iaman, as far as Tarsisi (Tarshish) – bowed to my feet." Here, Tarshish is certainly a large island, and cannot be confused with Tarsus (Thompson and Skaggs 2013).
* [[Flavius Josephus]]<ref>[[Antiquities of the Jews]] 1:6§1</ref> (1st century) reads "Tarshush", identifying it as the city of [[Tarsus, Mersin|Tarsus]] in southern [[Asia Minor]], which some have later equated with the Tarsisi mentioned in Assyrian records from the reign of Esarhaddon. Phoenician inscriptions were found at [[Karatepe]] in Cilicia.<ref>{{cite book |page=336 |chapter=Karatepe |first=Charles F. |last=Pfeiffer |series=The Biblical World |title=A Dictionary of Biblical Archaeology |location=Nashville, Tennessee |publisher=Broadman Press |year=1966}}</ref> [[Christian Charles Josias Bunsen|Bunsen]] and [[Archibald Sayce|Sayce]]<ref name="Expository">{{cite book |title=[[Expository Times]] |author1=Bunsen, C.C.J. |author1-link=Christian Charles Josias Bunsen |author2=Sayce |author2-link=Sayce |year=1902 |page=179}}</ref> have seemed to agree with Josephus, but the Phoenicians were active in many regions where metals were available, and classical authors, some biblical authors, and certainly the Nora Stone that mentions Tarshish generally place Phoenician expansion aimed at metals-acquisition in West of the Mediterranean.
* The [[Septuagint]] and the [[Vulgate]] in several passages translate it with [[Carthage]], apparently following a Jewish tradition found in the [[Targum Jonathan|Targum of Jonathan]] ("Afriki", i.e., Carthage).<ref name="Jewish"/>