Research Catalog

Title

Palaeohispanic languages and epigraphies / edited by Alejandro G. Sinner and Javier Velaza.

Publication

Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.

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Additional Authors

• Sinner, Alejandro G.
• Velaza, Javier

Description

xx, 483 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 24 cm

Summary

In addition to Phoenician, Greek, and Latin, at least four writing systems were used between the fifth century BCE and the first century CE to write the indigenous languages of the Iberian peninsula (the so-called Palaeohispanic languages): Tartessian, Iberian, Celtiberian, and Lusitanian. In total over three thousand inscriptions are preserved in what is certainly the largest corpus of epigraphic expression in the western Mediterranean world, with the exception of0the Italian peninsula. 0The aim of this volume is to present the most recent cutting-edge scholarship on these epigraphies and on the languages that they transmit. Utilizing a multidisciplinary approach which draws on the expertise of leading specialists in the field, it brings together a broad range of perspectives on the linguistic, philological, epigraphic, numismatic, historical, and archaeological aspects of the surviving inscriptions, and provides invaluable new insights into the social, economic, and cultural history of Hispania and the ancient western Mediterranean. The study of these languages is essential to our understanding of colonial Phoenician and Greek literacy, which lies at the root of their growth, as well as of the diffusion of Roman literacy, which played an important role in the final expansion of the so called Palaeohispanic languages.

Subjects

• Spain
• Portugal
• Inscriptions, Ancient > Spain
• Inscriptions, Celtiberian
• History
• Inscriptions, Iberian
• Europe > Iberian Peninsula
• Spain > History > To 218 B.C
• Portugal > History > To 218 B.C
• Language and languages
• To 218 B.C
• Inscriptions, Ancient > Portugal
• Iberian Peninsula > Languages > History

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 19-4773

ISBN

• 0198790821
• 9780198790822

OCLC

1042876756

Title

Palaeohispanic languages and epigraphies / edited by Alejandro G. Sinner and Javier Velaza.

Publisher

Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Note

ED: UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA.

Chronological Term

To 218 B.C.

Added Author

Sinner, Alejandro G., editor.

Velaza, Javier, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 19-4773