Luzaga's Bronze
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Luzaga
Luzaga is a village and municipality in the province of Guadalajara, Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha. Luzaga's Bronze, the most significant known example of Celtiberian script, was found here.-External links:*...
is a plate of 16 x 15 centimeters which has, in 8 lines, 123 celtiberian
Celtiberians
The Celtiberians were Celtic-speaking people of the Iberian Peninsula in the final centuries BC. The group used the Celtic Celtiberian language.Archaeologically, the Celtiberians participated in the Hallstatt culture in what is now north-central Spain...
characters engraved in the metal
Metal
A metal , is an element, compound, or alloy that is a good conductor of both electricity and heat. Metals are usually malleable and shiny, that is they reflect most of incident light...
with a bradawl or similar, and which has 7 holes, perhaps in order to be held. Since its discovery in the late nineteenth century, it has been lost.
Transcription
aregoratikubos : karuo : geneigortika : lutiakei : aukis : barazioka
erna : uela : tigerzetaz : so
ueizui : belaiokumkue
genis : garikokue : genis
sdam : gortikam : elazunom
karuo : tegez : sa : gortika
teiuoreikis
(Jordán 2004)
Further reading
- Ferrer i Jané, Joan (2005): “Novetats sobre el sistema dual de diferenciació gràfica de les oclusives”, Palaeohispanica 5, pp. 957-982.
- Jordán, Carlos (2005): “¿Sistema dual de escritura en celtibérico?”, Palaeohispanica 5, pp. 1013-1030.
- Jordán, Carlos. (2004): Celtibérico, Zaragoza.
- Meid, Wolfgang. (1994). Celtiberian Inscriptions, Budapest.
- Untermann, JürgenJürgen UntermannJürgen Untermann is a German linguist, indoeuropeanist and epigraphist.A disciple of Hans Krahe and of Ulrich Schmoll, he studied at the University of Frankfurt and the University of Tübingen...
(1997): Monumenta Linguarum Hispanicarum. IV Die tartessischen, keltiberischen und lusitanischen Inschriften, Wiesbaden.