Tartessos

thumb|300 px|Tartessos, circa 500 BC thumb|Tartessian winged feline statue at the Getty Villa

Tartessos () is, as defined by archaeological discoveries, a historical civilization settled in the southern Iberian Peninsula from about the late Bronze Age until the 5th century BC. It had a writing system, identified as Tartessian, that includes some 97 inscriptions in a Tartessian language that is unclassified for lack of data. Tartessos was the first "entity located in southwestern Iberia to be recognised as a kingdom".