ranked model · model_iberia1_gadir_foundation_ranked
model_iberia1_gadir_foundation_ranked
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
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Model comparison
models
- name
- Phased ninth- to eighth-century archaeological settlement
- rank
- 1
- reason
- Supported by excavated structures and current regional chronology.
- status
- preferred
- confidence
- high
- name
- Earlier episodic visits or cult activity before visible urban settlement
- rank
- 2
- reason
- Possible in principle, but not demonstrated as a foundation event by the sources used here.
- status
- open_question
- confidence
- low
- name
- Literal 1104/1103 BCE urban foundation
- rank
- 3
- reason
- The date is a later literary tradition and lacks a matching excavated horizon.
- status
- not_supported
- confidence
- very_low
Evidence and sources
- supports · supports
Gadir, su estructura plural. Un modo de ver su fundación fenicia en el espacio y en el tiempo — Diego Ruiz Mata (2018)Supports the phased model.
Locator: archaeological chronology - supports · dates
The Phoenician diaspora in the westernmost Mediterranean: recent discoveries — José Suárez-Padilla, Víctor Jiménez-Jáimez, José L. Caro (2021)Provides regional ninth-century chronology.
Locator: pp. 1495–1510 - supports · critiques interpretation
La fundación arcaica de Gadir. La construcción historiográfica de una ciudad ¿real o inventada? — Ana M.ª Niveau de Villedary y Mariñas (2019)Critiques the literal foundation date.
Locator: historiographic analysis