The House of Taŕśabań: The Same Iberian Anthroponym on Two Attic Skyphoi from the 5th Century BC Singular Building of Mas Castellar (Pontós, Girona)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.36707/palaeohispanica.v25i1.703Keywords:
Iberian inscription, Iberian language, Greek inscription, Cultural hybridizationAbstract
This work presents an unpublished Iberian inscription made on the base of an Attic skyphos
which comes from the singular building of Mas Castellar (Pontós) destroyed in the last quarter of the
5th century BC, with the text taŕśabańar, which reproduces and completes the same text as one of the
already published that comes from the same building: taŕśa[. The interpretation is clear, it is the name
of the owner of the two skyphoi and probably of the house, taŕśabań. Both become the oldest Iberian
inscriptions known based on stratigraphic chronology. The abundance of Greek graffiti is also noteworthy;
they have been found grouped according to the text they bear, which suggests that they were made within
the household itself rather than during the commercialization process, a fact that would further support
the cultural hybridity of the building.
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