List missing : Tartessos

[Jilu]

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220727-the-iberian-civilisation-that-vanished
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/tartessos-casas-del-turunuelo

Seems to have been a rich city-state.
I think there is no list covering them either biblical or classical.

[nikgaukroger]

What would you suggest the list would look like?

[Jilu]

"Tartessos is now generally considered to be a civilisation that formed from a mixture of indigenous people and Greek and Phoenician colonisers in the Iberian Peninsula. "
9th and 5th Centuries BCE

some kind of mix of these cultures?
Its seems to have been a quite  rich city-state.
Given de sacrifice of horses they should have some cavalry or Chariots.

i would see a noble cav TUG - loose formed/protected short spear superior unit of 6, melée expert optional ?

Units of hoplite-like infantry ? close/drilled or formed/protected/ Longspear perhaps one unit of superior for the more whealty ?

Iberian foot ? formed/tribal loose / average/javelin/shortspear

Javlin experienced / javelin skirmishers foot and horse?

Allies ? Lybian ? Celtic?

Ennemies : Celtic

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0fsc7kn/how-an-advanced-civilisation-vanished-2-500-years-ago

[lionheartrjc]

Tartessian culture is a pre-Iberian culture in Spain. Villanovan culture is pre-Etruscan in Italy. There is also Hallstat culture, pre-Celtic and the Chernogorovka-Novocherkassk culture in eastern Europe.

I believe the statement that the civilisation was a mixture of indigenous people and Greek and Phoenician colonisers would be considered controversial in academic circles. The more accepted view is that the Tartessians traded with Greeks and Phoenicians (mostly Phoenicians) who settled in the Western Mediterranean.  Cultural influence can be traced in trading routes as far as Assyria.

Richard

[Jilu]

Might be interesting to know more about them, maybe the recent escavations delivered new insight in the origins

[martymagnificent]

I believe there was a list for them under Warrior (ieWRG 7.5) that was a combination of Hoplites and Iberians.

Martin

[Jilu]

https://institucional.us.es/revistas/spal/13/art_10.pdf
Interesting in this is that there is a important Grrk influence and also Phoenician one.

I was rather rich even for the Greeks who were impressed by it.

So i a m dubious they would mainly have Iberian style of troops.

[Jilu]

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0fsc7kn/how-an-advanced-civilisation-vanished-2-500-years-ago?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=exchange&tblci=GiAdQKAwmPa91prBC0b-6HdRXUUcWM_RrxlDqsv8DzovJSCMjFQokc-x86qQrYzeAQ#tblciGiAdQKAwmPa91prBC0b-6HdRXUUcWM_RrxlDqsv8DzovJSCMjFQokc-x86qQrYzeAQ