Tarshish may be Crete,
Founded by Tarshish son of Yavan(Greece) brother of Kittim founder of Cypress.
Where Yonah was headed when storm (associated with Eruption of Thera?) hit.
If so and that eruption sunk Atlantis it was between 3049 -3083.
Compare picture above of Atlantis as described by Plato to that below.
If 'beyond Pillars of Heracles' refer to rocks of Gilbraltar it may be if taking west then north then east Mediterranean coastal route from Egypt to Crete.
If description from tail end of ice age ocean levels lower and land bridges could have connected Crete to mainland as were other Mediterranean islands with mammoth fossils that are post Mabul.
Age of Atlantis 9000 months (not 9000 years) = 700 years after adjusting for leap years. Ancient Egypt first used a lunar calendar.
Size may have also been misunderstood by a multiple of one thousand.
If land mass description correct may have included all of Europe, N Asia, perhaps Greenland and Americas If by sea Eastern seaboard, If by land by bearing straigt land bridge.
Either way total more then Africa and Mid East to India.
Akrotiri flotilla fresco at Santorini.
Part of a whole showing drowning of Egyptian army? at yam suf? then migration of some erev rav from Egypt to Crete? See The Exodus Decoded..
If pre Minoan Eruption of Thera, Atlantis may be city on section of the fresco shown below not Avaris.
Mycenae Grave Stele
section 1 Israel being pursued by Egyptian army into Yam Suf
section 2, shown below. Moses staff in hand turns to confront Pharaoh or his Chariots (600 choice and every other chariot in Egypt.)
section 3 Egyptian army drowns. See The Exodus Decoded.
