The Greek character of Ancient Iberian inscriptions*

Date
1978-05
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University of Calgary
Abstract
Pre-Roman, non-Celtic Iberian inscriptions, dating from the fifth to the first centuries, B.C. and written in a semi-syllabic orthography of Eastern Mediterranean origins, remain generally undeciphered. That some of the Iberian funeral inscriptions would have been recorded in the Greek language, however, seems logical, certainly after the fact, as Greek trading settlements occupied areas of the Western Mediterranean coasts from the Rhone river to Gibraltar for nearly two centuries before the appearance of the first Iberian inscriptions.
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Keywords
Linguistics, Historical linguistics, Iberian language, Language and languages--Orthography and spelling, Inscriptions, Iberian, Greek and Roman studies
Citation
Anderson, J. M. (1978). The Greek character of Ancient Iberian inscriptions*. Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, 4(Spring), page 1- 8.