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Common Ground and Progress on the Celtic of the South- western (SW) Inscriptions
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https://www.wales.ac.uk/Resources/Documents/Centre/2019/Koch-Celtic-of-the-SW-inscriptions-2019.pdf [ ¶ Preface. Our understanding of the emergence of the Celtic languages and their relationship with the rest of Indo-European still rests largely on a three-way comparison of Gaulish, Brythonic, and Goidelic. Until the discovery of the first long Celtiberian inscription from Botorrita (K.1.1) in 1970, little more than this was possible. In the coming years, one important factor for our grasp of Celtic as a subset of Indo-European will be how much Palaeohispanic evidence we can confidently include in the comparisons on which our evolving reconstruction of Proto-Celtic is based. Today, the classification remains uncertain for a large body of material from the western Iberian Peninsula outside the Celtiberian area in the eastern Meseta. The linguistic affiliation of this evidence should be more than an exercise in arbitrary labelling. We will want to know whether the evidence points to distinct branches of Indo-European that had formed somewhere else and then entered the Peninsula in waves or, rather, a pattern of long-term diversification of Indo-European in situ as a dialect continuum, along the lines foreseen by Renfrew. 1 ]
Cisalpine Celtic literacy – Proceedings of the international symposium, 2024
Stelae with Celtic inscriptions from the Lugano region (Canton Ticino, Switzerland) were mostly found in situations of re-use and scholars have dated them based on palaeographic comparisons. In this paper, these inscribed stelae will be put into the archaeological context of the area, whose greatest occupation took place during the Early Iron Age (Golasecca culture). Moreover, tombs from that period are often attested near the findspots of inscribed stelae. Since finds from the Early and Middle La Tène culture are extremely limited in the Lugano region, it seems unlikely that there was a significant epigraphic production in the Late Iron Age. The Celtic inscriptions on stone stelae found in the Lugano region should therefore be a local expression of the Golasecca culture.
Celtic Religions in the Roman period. R. Häussler, A. King, eds. Proceedings of the 13th FERCAN colloquium (Lampeter, 2014), 2017
This multi-authored book brings together new work, from a wide range of disciplinary vantages, on pre-Christian religion in the Celtic-speaking provinces of the Roman Empire. The chapters are the work of international experts in the fields of classics, ancient history, archaeology, and Celtic studies. It is fully illustrated with b&w and colour maps, site plans, photographs and drawings of ancient inscriptions and images of Romano-Celtic gods. The collection is based on the thirteenth workshop of the F.E.R.C.AN. project ( fontes epigraphici religionum Celticarum antiquarum), which was held in 2014 in Lampeter, Wales. celtic studies publications CSP-Cymru Cyf celtic studies publications CSP-Cymru Cyf 9 7 8 1 8 9 1 2 7 1 2 5 0 1 3 9 9 5 ISBN 978-1-891271-25-0 cover Celtic Religions Cocidius knockout terfynol.indd 1
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Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie
Celtic tribes once occupied a vast area which stretched from Ireland to Spain and northern Italy, down the Danube river to the Balkans. Even in Asia a small province named Galatia was held by the Galati, who were of Celtic origin and survived till late antiquity. Throughout these territories we find many archaeological traces of ancient Celtic religion. Highly important for the reconstruction of the Celtic pantheon are the widespread epigraphic testimonies on various votive objects from Celtic sanctuaries and shrines (e. g.: altars, columns, bronze tablets etc.) as well as the anepigraphic reliefs representing indigenous deities. With the ever increasing number of such significant finds this invaluable epigraphic source material has never been documented, analysed or interpreted in its entirety. Scholarly documentation, systematic analysis are nevertheless an essential premise to study ancient Celtic religion. It will not only allow us to recognise the linguistic origins, the meanin...