myth interpretation · myth_iberia1_gadir_1104_foundation_memory
Gadir 1104/1103 BCE as later civic and historiographic foundation memory
Review and provenance
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Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
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Research assessment
alternative interpretations
- The tradition could preserve a distorted memory of earlier seasonal visits or cult activity, but no secure archaeological horizon presently verifies 1104/1103 BCE.
Evidence and sources
Source roles below relate to the stated assessment, “Unsupported explanation”. Read the source notes to distinguish evidence for an observation from evidence against an explanation.
- supports · provides primary evidence
Roman History 1.2.3: Gades foundation tradition — Velleius PaterculusProvides the later foundation chronology.
Locator: Roman History 1.2.3 - 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)Provides modern source criticism.
Locator: historiographic analysis - supports · contextualizes
The foundation legend of Gades: inventions, interpretations and developments through the ages — Pamina Fernández Camacho (2022)Provides transmission history.
Locator: chapters on invention and reception - supports · provides archaeological observation
Gadir, su estructura plural. Un modo de ver su fundación fenicia en el espacio y en el tiempo — Diego Ruiz Mata (2018)Provides the archaeological alternative.
Locator: Gadir chronology sections