"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.

Εl voto de un soldado a Silvano – Zeus "Dalbenus"?

Estudiamos una pieza inédita de una colección privada de Barcelona. Es una escultura votiva, ofrecida por un soldado. Representa al dios Silvano, si bien el nombre de este dios no aparece citado en la inscripción griega de la base, donde se indica que el voto va dirigido a Zeus Dalbenus. Este epíteto Dalbenos / Dalbenus es un hápax. Ofrecemos una lectura del texto e intentamos dar una respuesta a las “incongruencias” entre imagen y texto inscrito.

CIL I(2): 2.1, no. 4 – Duenos vase

Photographs

CIL 2.5041 – Decree of L. Aemilius Paulus - Bronze tablet

Photograph

CIL 3.566 – Dedication for Q. Minucius Rufus

Squeeze, photograph and notes by A.E. Gordon

CIL 3.14203, 06 – Inscription on a round base for C. Julius Caesar, son of Gaius

Squeeze, photograph and notes by A.E. Gordon

CIL 3.14203, 22 – Dedication of L. Aemilus Paulus

Photographs and notes by A.E. Gordon

CIL 3.314203, 23 – Dedication of M. Minucius Rufus

Squeeze, photograph and notes by A.E. Gordon

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 5.8045 – Milestone

Photographs and notes by A.E. Gordon

CIL 5.8270 – Metrical dedication for Gaius Sempronius Tuditanus

Squeeze, photograph, and notes by A.E. Gordon

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

Photographs and translation

CIL 6.1286 – Metrical epitaph for Lucius Cornelius Scipio, son of Barbatus

Photograph

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