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The location of Tartessos: a fresh case for the reliability of Avienus' Ora Maritima
| العنوان: | The location of Tartessos: a fresh case for the reliability of Avienus' Ora Maritima |
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| المؤلفون: | Villarías Robles, Juan José R., Rodríguez Ramírez, Antonio, López Sáez, J. Antonio, Celestino Pérez, Sebastián, León, Ángel |
| بيانات النشر: | Frontiers Media |
| سنة النشر: | 2024 |
| المجموعة: | Universidad de Huelva: Arias Montano |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Geomorphology, Paleoenvironment, Geoarchaeology, Philology, Ancient history, R. F. Avienus, Poem Ora Maritima, Tartessos, 2506.07 Geomorfología, 2416 Paleontología |
| الوصف: | Recent geomorphological, paleoenvironmental, and chronological evidence allows for a reconstruction of the coasts of southwest Iberia during the firstmillennium BCE that accords with descriptions of the region offered by authors of antiquity, most notably the description by the fourth-century CE Roman writer R. F. Avienus in his poem Ora Maritima. This poem contains information that appears to date from the sixth century BCE regarding, for instance, the pre-Roman polity of Tartessos. The reliability of this work as a historical source has been questioned for decades. Critics argue that the information is pertinent to our understanding of the literary, rather than historiographical, context of the Late Roman Empire. However, philological as well as historical analyses reveal no clear cause to doubt the documentary value of the Ora Maritima. Furthermore, geomorphological research makes it possible to identify most place-names in the poem; for example, the city embraced by the river Tartessos, apparently the political and trade center of the realm, may likely have stood on the present-day spit of La Algaida, which was an isle in the first millennium BCE. While this hypothesis has been advanced elsewhere, this article offers an entirely new set of evidences to support it. ; The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. Funding was provided by Fundación Caja de Madrid (“Proyecto Hinojos: Contrastación de la Hipótesis Wickboldt-Kühne, en Hinojos (Huelva), Fase II”), Fundación Doñana 21 (“Proyecto Hinojos: Fase II"), the town council of Hinojos, Huelva (“Proyecto Hinojos, Fase II”), the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation (MICINN) (Research Project of Excellence “Construyendo Tarteso, HAR2015-63788-P”), the Regional Government of Andalusia (support to the RNM-276 Research Group of The University of Huelva, as well as to the Environmental Archaeology Research Group of CSIC-IH for their participation in the Project of Excellence ... |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | English |
| Relation: | https://hdl.handle.net/10272/23862 |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fmars.2024.1379920 |
| الاتاحة: | https://hdl.handle.net/10272/23862 https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2024.1379920 |
| Rights: | Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España ; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ ; open access |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.2F7A7379 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fmars.2024.1379920 |
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