Una propuesta de normalización de la escritura celtibérica

Abstract

We provide a preliminary proposal for normalization of the identification of the palaeohispanic signs used in Celtiberian writing that may facilitate their taxonomy and subsequent study. Starting from a review of the classification work on North-eastern Iberian and Celtiberian scripts carried out by Untermann, which are considered to be the current work of reference, we have gone on to select the basic representation of each one of the above-mentioned signs while at the same time explaining the criteria on which we have based it for such purpose and for the purpose of disregarding what we have considered to be their micro-variants.

The resulting set of canonical palaeohispanic signs and their corresponding variants provides a more scientific basis for the study of palaeohispanic epigraphy or palaeography than the methods hitherto used - a set of signs that still has to be reviewed and completed as a consequence of which their use is contrasted in each and every known inscription. For this reason, we hope that with subsequent results in this line of work the information and knowledge regarding these languages and writing systems will be able to be obtained, as well as establishing who used them. This information will be able to be complemented by that deriving from one the corresponding linguistic study of the texts analyzed which, in turn and recursively, will also complement and be completed by the archaeological and historical knowledge of the inscriptions.