Graeco-Iberian alphabet

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Old Hispanic writings
The Graeco-Iberian alphabet
Lead sheet from La Serreta ( Alcoi )

The Graeco-Iberian alphabet is one of several closely related ancient Hispanic scripts that were used before and at the beginning of Roman rule on the Iberian Peninsula. The Graeco-Iberian alphabet was used in the 5th to 4th centuries BC in the area of ​​today's provinces of Murcia and Alicante, it was used to record the language of the Iberians , but it was only a slightly modified Greek alphabet , so no syllabary . It was always written from left to right.

literature

  • Manuel Gómez-Moreno : De Epigrafia ibérica: el plomo de Alcoy. In: Revista de filología española 9, 1922, pp. 341-366.
  • Javier de Hoz: La escritura greco-ibérica. In: Veleia 2-3, 1987, pp. 285-298.
  • Javier de Hoz: Epigrafía griega de occidente y escritura greco-ibérica. In: Los griegos en España , 1998, pp. 180–196.
  • Jesús Rodríguez Ramos: Análisis de epigrafía íbera , Vitoria-Gasteiz 2004.
  • Jürgen Untermann : Monumenta Linguarum Hispanicarum. III The Iberian inscriptions from Spain , Wiesbaden 1990.
  • Javier Velaza: Epigrafía y lengua ibéricas , Barcelona 1996.