Luzaga's Bronze

The Bronze of Luzaga is a plate of 16 x 15 centimeters which has, in 8 lines, 123 celtiberian characters engraved in the metal with a bradawl or similar, and which has 7 holes, perhaps in order to be held. Since its discovery in the late nineteenth century, it has been lost.

Transcription

aregoratikubos : karuo : genei

gortika : lutiakei : aukis : barazioka

erna : uela : tigerzetaz : so

ueizui : belaiokumkue

genis : garikokue : genis

sdam : gortikam : elazunom

karuo : tegez : sa : gortika

teiuoreikis

(Jordán 2004)

Further reading

* Ferrer i Jané, Joan (2005): [http://www.dpz.es/ifc2/publi/fichapublic.asp?recid=2622 “Novetats sobre el sistema dual de diferenciació gràfica de les oclusives”] , "Palaeohispanica" 5, pp. 957-982.
* Jordán, Carlos (2005): [http://www.dpz.es/ifc2/publi/fichapublic.asp?recid=2622 “¿Sistema dual de escritura en celtibérico?”] , "Palaeohispanica" 5, pp. 1013-1030.
* Jordán, Carlos. (2004): "Celtibérico", Zaragoza.
* Meid, Wolfgang. (1994). "Celtiberian Inscriptions", Budapest.
* Untermann, Jürgen (1997): "Monumenta Linguarum Hispanicarum. IV Die tartessischen, keltiberischen und lusitanischen Inschriften", Wiesbaden.

External links

* [http://www.luzaga.com/celtas.htm Luzaga's history website]