Southeastern Iberian script

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Southeastern Iberian script in the context of paleohispanic scripts
A possible southeastern Iberian signary (Correa 2004).
Moixent
)
As of Obulco, 175 BC - 126 BC.

On this coin, while the obverse has a legend "OBVLCO" in Latin script, the reverse reads:

"ORCaILV" in Iberian script "ORCaILV" and:

"NTuSTuLDuCo" in Iberian script "NTuSTuLDuCo" (names of local magistrates) in Iberian script.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

The southeastern Iberian script, also known as Meridional Iberian, was one of the means of written expression of the

, a recent paper (Ferrer i Jané 2010) defends the existence of a dual system also in the southeastern Iberian script.

Typology and variants

All the

semi-syllabaries. There is no agreement about how the paleohispanic semi-syllabaries originated; some researchers conclude that their origin is linked only to the Phoenician alphabet, while others believe the Greek alphabet
exercised some influence.

Location of findings

The inscriptions that use the southeastern Iberian script had been found mainly in the southeastern quadrant of the

València
). The inscriptions that use this script almost always use the right to left direction of writing. The oldest inscriptions in southeastern Iberian script date to the 4th century BCE, and the latest ones date from the end of the 2nd century BCE.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Leandre Villaronga, Jaume Benages, "Les monedes de l'edat antiga a la Península Ibèrica", pp 421-425.
  2. ^ Leandre Villaronga, "Corpus nummum Hispaniae ante Augusti aetatem"
  3. ^ Fernando Álvarez Burgos, "Catálogo general de la moneda hispánica"
  4. ^ Leandre Villaronga, José A Herrero, "Corpus Nummum Hispaniæ ante Augusti Ætatem"
  5. ^ Aloïss Heiss, "Description générale des monnaies antiques de l'Espagne"
  6. ^ MIB 159/14a, in P.P. Ripollès, M. Gozalbes (ed.), Moneda Ibérica (MIB), Valencia, https://monedaiberica.org/v3/type/2194 [accessed 4/6/2023]

Bibliography

  • Correa, José Antonio (2004): «Los semisilabarios ibéricos: algunas cuestiones», ELEA 4, pp. 75-98.
  • Ferrer i Jané, Joan (2010): «El sistema dual de l'escriptura ibèrica sud-oriental», Veleia 27, pp. 69-113.
  • Hoz, Javier de (1989): «El desarrollo de la escritura y las lenguas de la zona meridional», Tartessos, pp.523-587.
  • Rodríguez Ramos, Jesús (2002): «La escritura ibérica meridional», Zephyrus 55, pp. 231-245.
  • Untermann, Jürgen (1990): Monumenta Linguarum Hispanicarum. III Die iberischen Inschriften aus Spanien, Wiesbaden.
  • Velaza, Javier (1996): Epigrafía y lengua ibéricas, Barcelona.

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