Azaila: Writing in an Iberian City
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https://doi.org/10.36707/palaeohispanica.v25i1.710Keywords:
Azaila, Iberian epigraphy , literacy , household epigraphy , amphoric epigraphyAbstract
The Iberian site of Cabezo de Alcalá, in the Teruel town of Azaila and epigraphically datable between the 2nd and 1st centuries BC, represents an exceptional example for the study of the use of writing in Iberian society. Its epigraphic collection is the most extensive in Palaeohispanic epigraphy, with almost a thousand registered epigraphs, and its analysis allows us to understand better the purposes and frequency with which Iberian people wrote.
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