Palaeohispanic Languages and Epigraphies

Alejandro Garcia Sinner, Assistant Professor of Roman Art and Archaeology, University of Victoria,Javier Velaza, Professor of Latin Philology, University of Barcelona

Alejandro G. Sinner is Assistant Professor of Roman Art and Archaeology in the Department of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Victoria. His research covers the social and cultural history of Roman Spain and the western provinces, and his publications include three books and over a dozen articles in peer reviewed journals exploring Iberian numismatics, pre-Roman languages in the Iberian peninsula, pre-Roman and Roman domestic and religious spaces, and the construction of identities and the processes of cultural change in colonial contexts. Since 2006 he has been digging at the ancient site of Ilduro (Cabrera de Mar, Catalonia) in northeastern Spain, where he is currently directing a research project and leading an international archaeological field school.

Javier Velaza is Professor of Latin Philology and the Dean of the Faculty of Philology at the University of Barcelona. His research focuses on pre-Roman languages in the Iberian peninsula, Roman epigraphy, and the history of textual transmission, and his academic publications include twelve books and over 200 articles in scientific journals. He is one of the main editors of the second edition of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum II and is also currently the principal researcher of the LITTERA ('Laboratorio para la investigacion y tratamiento de textos epigraficos romanos y antiguos') research group, as well as a member of the HESPERIA project (Banco de Datos Linguisticos de la Peninsula Iberica).

Frontmatter
List of Figures, Maps, and Tables
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
1. Method and Methods: Studying Palaeohispanic Languages as a Discipline, J. de Hoz
2. The Iberian Peninsula in Pre-Roman Times: An Archaeological and Ethnographical Survey, A. Lorrio and J. Sanmarti
3. Phoenician Epigraphy, J. A. Zamora
4. Palaeohispanic Writing Systems: Classification, Origin, and Development, J. Ferrer and N. Moncunill
5. The Epigraphic and Linguistic Situation in the South-West of the Iberian Peninsula, J. A. Correa and A. Guerra
6. The Linguistic Situation in the Territory of Andalusia, J. de Hoz
7. Iberian Writing and Language, J. Velaza
8. Cultural and Linguistic Contacts in Southern Gaul, A. Mullen and C. Ruiz Darasse
9. The Vasco-Iberian Theory, E. Orduna
10. Writing and Language in Celtiberia, F. Beltran and C. Jordan
11. Language and Writing among the Lusitanians, E. R. Lujan
12. The Parts of Hispania without Epigraphy, J. Gorrochategui and J. M. Vallejo
13. Coin Evidence for Palaeohispanic Languages, P. P. Ripolles and A. G. Sinner
14. Writing, Colonization, and Latinization in the Iberian Peninsula, B. Diaz Arino, M. J. Estaran, and I. Simon
Endmatter
Bibliography
Concordance of Inscriptions
Index of Sources