The Novallas bronze tablet

An inscription in the Celtiberian language and the Latin alphabet from Spain

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12373787
AutoresFrancisco Beltrán Lloris (0000-0002-9658-9395, Universidad de Zaragoza), Carlos Jordán Cólera (0000-0002-2986-1344, Universidad de Zaragoza), Borja Díaz Ariño (0000-0001-9099-5811, Universidad de Zaragoza, autor de correspondencia), Ignacio Simón Cornago (0000-0001-5995-9599, Universidad de Granada)
Año2021
Volumen34
Número2
Páginas713-733
Fecha de publicación2021-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Roman Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1047-7594 • E-ISSN: 2331-5709
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1047759421000635
OpenAlexW4200095943
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas10

The Novallas Bronze may be considered one of the most important epigraphic finds in recent years in Spain. It is a fragment of a public document datable to the last decades of the 1st c. BCE, composed in the Celtiberian language but written in the Latin alphabet. The Novallas Bronze is not only one of the latest inscriptions composed in this language – over half a century later than the famous inscriptions from Contrebia Belaisca – but also the longest Celtiberian document written in the Latin alphabet known thus far. This paper offers a complete publication of this exceptional document, as well as an analysis of the principal developments that the artifact illuminates and the consequent implications for the transformations that the Celtiberian people underwent during the transition from Republic to Empire, with particular focus on the process of Latinization

Alphabet · Ancient history · Art · Bronze · Linguistics · Archaeological and Geological Studies · Archaeological and Historical Studies · Classics · History · Linguistics and language evolution · Philosophy