TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sinner,Alejandro G.
AU  - Velaza,Javier
TI  - Palaeohispanic languages and epigraphies / edited by Alejandro G. Sinner and Javier Velaza
SN  - 9780198790822 (hbk.) :
AV  - P1081 .P35 2019
U1  - 410 S 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Inscriptions, Ancient
KW  - Spain
KW  - Portugal
KW  - Inscriptions, Celtiberian
KW  - Inscriptions, Iberian
KW  - Iberian Peninsula
KW  - Languages
KW  - History
KW  - To 218 B.C
KW  - Europe
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
ER  -