Ταρτησσός - Stephanos Ethnika

Ταρτησσός OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Ταρτησσός, πόλις Ἰβηρίας, ἀπὸ ποταμοῦ τοῦ ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἀργυροῦ ὄρους ῥέοντος, ὅστις ποταμὸς καὶ κασσίτερον ἐν Ταρτησσῷ καταφέρει. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ταρτήσσιος καὶ Ταρτησσία καὶ Ταρτησσίς. καὶ οὐδετέρως “Ταρτήσσιον ὄλβιον ἄστυ”.

Tartessos: a city in Iberia, named after a river that flows from Mount Argyros and carries tin down to Tartessos. The ethnonym is 'Tartessios', with 'Tartessia' and 'Tartessis' as feminine forms. There is also the neuter form: ‘the prosperous city of Tartessos’.

AI translation — gpt-6-sol; Gabe v3

Text Details

Entry	#41
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 606.15
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-22
Word count	31
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-6-sol

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ταρτησσός	Tartessos/Tartessus · place
Ἰβηρία	Iberia · place
Ἀργυρός	Argyros (the Silver Mountain) · place
Ταρτησσός	Tartessos/Tartessus · place
Ταρτήσσιος	Tartessian · people
Ταρτήσσιος	Tartessian (feminine form) · people
Ταρτησσός	Tartessian (ethnic name) · people
Ταρτήσσιος	Tartessian · other
Ταρτησσός	place · explicit · wikidata: Q320416 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Place Transfer	Tartessos, a city of Iberia, is named from the river flowing from the Silver Mountain.
Unclear Metalinguistic	This river also carries tin into Tartessos.

Links

Place links	Tartessos \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN)... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ARTICLE + genitive ETYMON) formula:8856d9e4780f3c74	Translate as "X... from the form 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · medium confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) ... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ETYMON) formula:7c2ffc889ab09d8d	Translate as "X... after Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive PEOPLE) formula:0a6d211492d74a05	Translate as "a X of the Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive REGION) formula:1040044f9f2bf616	Translate as "a X in Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	καί + X (nominative PROPER NOUN) + Y (nominative PROPER NOUN) formula:0af867b3dd6df580	Translate as "Y is also 'X'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	τὸ ἐθνικὸν + X (nominative ETHNONYM) formula:cfc8a7c494690fc3	Translate as "the ethnonym is 'X'" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 4 occurrences
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ὄρος ὁ gloss:184051ff413f789d	mountain, mount (X ὄρος = 'Mount X') Domain: TERRAIN/LANDMASSES	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.

Herodian 1.210

char LCS 59 (33.1%) · word LCS 11 (36.7%)

Stephanos

Ταρτησσός, πόλις Ἰβηρίας, ἀπὸ ποταμοῦ τοῦ ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἀργυροῦ ὄρους ῥέοντος, ὅστις ποταμὸς καὶ κασσίτερον ἐν Ταρτησσῷ καταφέρει. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ταρτήσσιος καὶ Ταρτησσία καὶ Ταρτησσίς. καὶ οὐδετέρως “Ταρτήσσιον ὄλβιον ἄστυ”.

Herodian

…ἔχον ὀξύνεται. Τὰ εἰς 'σος' ὑπερδισύλλαβα τῷ 'η' παραληγόμενα ἕτερον ἔχοντα 'σ' ὀξύνεται· εἰ δέ τι βαρύτονον εἴη, παρώνυμον ἂν εἴη. τὰ δὲ ἓν ἀναδεξάμενα 'σ' βαρύνεται, σπάνια δέ ἐστι, χωρὶς εἰ μὴ ἔννοιαν συνθέσεως ἔχοι. Ταρτησσός πόλις Ἰβηρίας ἀπὸ ποταμοῦ τοῦ ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἀργυροῦ ὄρους ῥέοντος. Λυρνησσός πόλις Τρωϊκή. Λυκαβησσός. Μυκαλησσός πόλις ἐν μεσογείᾳ Βοιωτίας. Θουκυδίδης ἑβδόμῃ (c. 29). ἐκλήθη δὲ ὅτι ἡ βοῦς ἐνταῦθα ἐμυκήσατο ἡ τὸν Κάδμον καὶ τὸν σὺν αὐτῷ στρατὸν ἀγαγοῦσα εἰς Θήβας. ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη Καρία…