Hay quien cree que fue Magón su destructor

Zusammenfassung

The approach taken by Ruiz Mata, outlined in issue no. 60 of this journal, who holds that the Phoenician-Punic settlement known as Castillo de Doña Blanca was besieged, plundered and abandoned by the Romans owing to its allegiance to the Carthaginians and was condemned for this reason to oblivion (damnatio memoriae), unlike Gadir, which signed a foedus with Rome in the year 205 BC, lacks sufficient archaeological evidence and, in addition, challenges the researcher’s own thesis, sustained for years, of a polynuclear Gadir, of which Doña Blanca would have been an essential part. On the contrary, we should consider whether the causes of the looting and abandonment of the city known as Castillo de Doña Blanca had to do with the divergences between the gaditanos and the Carthaginians due to the policy of the latter of “emptying” the area of the bay and its surroundings in order to enhance the Southeast of the Iberian Peninsula, which made them ally with the Romans. In this case, the Carthaginians would have been the ones who, in their retreat, attacked the settlement of Castillo de Doña Blanca (the Cimbium mentioned in classical sources?) and the gaditanos themselves may have been those responsible for its oblivion.