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Figure 1. The engravings and drawings of tuna and dolphins on the rocky walls of Genovese’s Cave on the Isle of
Levanzo (Egadi Islands, western Sicily, Italy), 9,200 B.C.

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Figure 2. (right). Cutting a bluefin tuna before a ceremony or a feast. Black figures painted on a reddish background
and decorating a Greek wine pitcher of VI b.C. at the State Museum in Berlin (Germany).
Figure 3. (left). Image of a bluefin tuna vendor on a “Siciliota” pottery from the IV century B.C. at the Mandralisca
Museum in Cefalù (Sicily, Italy).

Figure 4. Three ancient Hispano-Arabic coins from southern Spain, showing bluefin tuna on one side.

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