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© Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Barcelona
Omeka ID 2572
Cabanes
Protohistory and Iberian world

funerary stele with inscription

MAC BCN-029202

Object type
stele
Production date
-200 / -100
Fabric
-
Museum
Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Barcelona
Culture
Protohistory and Iberian world
Discovery location
Cabanes
Materials
stone
Township
Cabanes (Europa, Espanya, País Valencià, Castelló)
Technique
carving
Where is it?
Exposició permanent
Dimensions
1010 x 420 x 270 mm
Description
Stone stele carved from a single block that is quite damaged, especially at the top. An inscription with 16 Iberian linguistic signs is divided into three lines: Iltirbiguir / en : seldat / doi. The first word corresponds to an anthroponym. It translates as 'Burial grave of iltiŕ Bi Guir'. It was found by Joaquin Perez in the area of El Bordissal (Cabanes, Castellón) in late 1913, after heavy rainfall. It is a funerary stele of an Iberian person. Such steles are quite late in the Iberian world, datable from the second century BC, when they copied a way of marking the grave from the Roman world. CIVERA GÓMEZ, M. 2013, Inscripcions sepulcrals ibèriques de Sagunt i algunes més, Arse 47, 21-42. Pàg. 38. ESTEVE GALVEZ, F. 1989, La lápida ibérica de Cabanes, Archivo de Prehistoria Levantina XIX, Valencia. Pàg. 115, Làm I.

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