Papyrus grecs /

Greek text with French translations and commentary.

"Lancea", Lusitanian Word, and the "Lancienses" Ethnogenesis

Analysis of the word lancea, of Hispanic origin after Varro, and of place names, people´s names and personal names derived from it. It confirms that the spear was the most important weapon in the Bronze Age, belonging to the iuventus and used as heroic and divine symbol. This analysis confirms also the personality of the Lusitanians, a people related to the Celts but with more archaic archaeological, linguistic and cultural characteristics originated in the tradition of the Atlantic Bronze in the II millennium BC. It is also relevant to better know the organisation of Broze and Iron Age societies and the origin of Indo-Europeans peoples in Western Europe and of pre-Roman peoples of Iberia.

CIL 5.7749 – Sententia Minuciorum on a dispute over public land between the Genovana and the Langensian Viturians - Bronze tablet

Photograph + clipping from Oggi, May 10, 1952

CIL 6.1284-1285 – Metrical epitaph on a sarcophagus for Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus

Photographs and translation

CIL 6.1287 – Metrical epitaph for Lucius Cornelius Scipio, son of Barbatus

Photographs, notes by A.E. Gordon, and translation by A.J. Heisserer

CIL 6.1288 – Metrical epitaph for Publius Cornelius Scipio, son of Publius

Photograph and notes by A.E. Gordon

CIL 6.40890/ IG 14.951 – Bronze tablet with a bilingual ‘senatus consultum’ granting a tax exemption and other privileges to Asklepiades of Klazomenai and other Greek naval captains

Photographs