wild silk 1000 years before Celtic context

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Got this from a Minoan costume research article, almost in passing:

Less likely, although possible,
are silk and cotton. According to Kenoyer, Indus cities
cultivated cotton, produced cotton cloth, and traded
with the Mesopotamian cities of Susa and Ur during
the Harappan civilization, ca. 2600–1900 B.C.E.48 Panagiotakopulu
noted that a wild silk cocoon was discovered
in Akrotiri, and there is evidence that cotton
cloth was woven in the Indus Valley at Mohenjo-Daro
in the early second millennium and that cotton was
cultivated in Egypt ca. 2500 B.C.E.; therefore, both
cotton and silk may have been imported to Akrotiri.49
"New Reconstructions of the “Mykenaia” and a
Seated Woman from Mycenae"
BERNICE R. JONES

This puts silk in the Mediterranean 1500 years before the Principate.