A Vasconic inscription on a bronze hand: writing and rituality in the Iron Age Irulegi settlement in the Ebro Valley / Mattin Aiestaran, Javier Velaza, Joaquín Gorrochategui, Carmen Usúa, Pablo Pujol, Euken Alonso, Eneko Iriarte, Josu Narbarte, Dani Ruiz-González, Oihane Mendizabal-Sandonís, Jesús Sesma, Jose Antonio Mujika-Alustiza, Jesús García Gazólaz, Berta Balduz, Juantxo Agirre-Mauleon.
Contributor(s): Aiestaran De la Sotilla, Mattin
| Velaza, Javier | Gorrochategui, Joaquín | Usúa, Carmen | Pujol, Pablo | Alonso, Euken | Iriarte Avilés, Eneko | Narbarte Hernández, Josu | Ruiz-Gonzalez, Daniel | Mendizabal Sandonis, Oihane | Sesma Sesma, Jesús | Mujika Alustiza, José Antonio | García Gazólaz, Jesús | Balduz Azcárate, Berta | Agirre Mauleon, Juantxo | Aranzadi Zientzia Elkartea.
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Computer fileCitation: Aiestaran, M., Velaza, J., Gorrochategui, J., Usúa, C., Pujol, P., Alonso, E., Iriarte, E., Narbarte, J., Ruiz-González, D., Mendizabal-Sandonís, O., Sesma, J., Mujika-Alustiza, J.A., García Gazólaz, J., Balduz, B., Agirre-Mauleon, J., 2024. A Vasconic inscription on a bronze hand: writing and rituality in the Iron Age Irulegi settlement in the Ebro Valley. Antiquity 98(397), 66-84. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.199 Publisher: [S.l.] : Cambridge University Press, 2024Content type: texto (visual) Media type: sin mediación Subject(s): Edad de hierro tardía | Epigrafía vascona | Análisis lingüísticos | paleohispánico | Península ibérica | circunscripción pirenaicaGenre/Form: Artículo científicoOnline resources: Click here to access online Summary: Relatively few examples of Palaeohispanic writing have been recovered from the Vasconic territories of present-day Navarre, leading to the assumption that the Vascones were a pre-literate society. Here, the authors report on an inscription on a bronze hand recovered at the Iron Age site of Irulegi (Aranguren Valley, Navarre) in northern Spain. Its detailed linguistic analysis suggests that the script represents a graphic subsystem of Palaeohispanic that shares its roots with the modern Basque language and constitutes the first example of Vasconic epigraphy. The text inscribed on this artefact, which was found at the entrance of a domestic building, is interpreted as apotropaic, a token entreating good fortune.
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Relatively few examples of Palaeohispanic writing have been recovered from the Vasconic territories of present-day Navarre, leading to the assumption that the Vascones were a pre-literate society. Here, the authors report on an inscription on a bronze hand recovered at the Iron Age site of Irulegi (Aranguren Valley, Navarre) in northern Spain. Its detailed linguistic analysis suggests that the script represents a graphic subsystem of Palaeohispanic that shares its roots with the modern Basque language and constitutes the first example of Vasconic epigraphy. The text inscribed on this artefact, which was found at the entrance of a domestic building, is interpreted as apotropaic, a token entreating good fortune.
Aiestaran, M., Velaza, J., Gorrochategui, J., Usúa, C., Pujol, P., Alonso, E., Iriarte, E., Narbarte, J., Ruiz-González, D., Mendizabal-Sandonís, O., Sesma, J., Mujika-Alustiza, J.A., García Gazólaz, J., Balduz, B., Agirre-Mauleon, J., 2024. A Vasconic inscription on a bronze hand: writing and rituality in the Iron Age Irulegi settlement in the Ebro Valley. Antiquity 98(397), 66-84. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.199
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