entity · term_iberia1_gadir_foundation_tradition
Gadir foundation tradition
Also known as: Gades foundation legend, 1104/1103 BCE foundation date
Later literary tradition assigning Gadir a very early foundation relative to the Trojan War.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1104 BCE–800 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · provides primary evidence
Roman History 1.2.3: Gades foundation tradition — Velleius PaterculusProvides the later literary statement.
Locator: Roman History 1.2.3 - informs · 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 source criticism.
Locator: historiographic analysis of the archaic foundation - informs · contextualizes
The foundation legend of Gades: inventions, interpretations and developments through the ages — Pamina Fernández Camacho (2022)Traces the tradition’s development.
Locator: chapters on invention and reception
Research description
The traditional date is evidence for literary chronology and civic memory, not an excavated foundation horizon.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Literary tradition, not an excavated event date
A later text or tradition refers to an earlier event but does not date it archaeologically.
Why does this record have this property?
It cannot replace the ninth-century archaeological horizon.
- La fundación arcaica de Gadir. La construcción historiográfica de una ciudad ¿real o inventada?
supports assignment and caveat · historiographic analysis
Evidence and sources
- supports · provides primary evidence
Roman History 1.2.3: Gades foundation tradition — Velleius PaterculusProvides the later literary statement.
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 source criticism.
Locator: historiographic analysis of the archaic foundation - supports · contextualizes
The foundation legend of Gades: inventions, interpretations and developments through the ages — Pamina Fernández Camacho (2022)Traces the tradition’s development.
Locator: chapters on invention and reception