A new Iberian Epigraph with a Latin Anthroponym from Libisosa
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https://doi.org/10.36707/palaeohispanica.v22i0.449Keywords:
Epigraphy, Palaeohispanic languages, Iberian Archaeology, Religion, RomanizationAbstract
This article presents an Iberian epigraph recovered in a gentilic worship complex dated in the 2nd century BC. The inscription, engraved on the reverse of a locally produced plate typical of the Ibero-Roman phase of Libisosa, is in North-Eastern writing system, differing from the other published epigraphs from this same site, which use South-Eastern script. The reading, uikaniban, allows us to propose its segmentation in two elements, resulting in an initial segment which, although it may hold a Celtic name, we interpret as the genitive of the Latin cognomen Vicanus, perhaps a member of the increasingly self-romanized Libisosan elite that participated in the ritual feasts that took place in the building.
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