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#FindsFriday #Celtic: Dawing of the Vercelli boundary stone after Lejeune 1988. `It bears the same text in Gaulish and Latin: "Boundary marking the area which Acisios Argantocomaterecos dedicated jointly to the gods and to men, (an area defined) by the manner in which the boundary stones, numbering four, were erected.
Etruscan script, itself derived from an archaic Greek alphabet, was used by the Cisalpine Gauls to write their language. Other Celtic-speaking peoples had gone before them in this regard, as evidenced by the so-called Iepontic funerary inscriptions from the Lugano region, the oldest of which
date from around 500 BCE.
Source: Le musée de Bibracte

1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻2h ago

#FindsFriday #FerrousFriday #Celtic: `The banquet service features utensils whose quality reflects the prestige of their owner. The centrepiece is the yew-wood bucket, whose embossed hoops and solid handle fittings often display intricate decoration. The large serving ladles are adorned with bovine heads featuring prominent horns.`
Source: Le musée de Bibracte

1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻3h ago

#FindsFriday #Celtic: Dawing of the Vercelli boundary stone after Lejeune 1988. `It bears the same text in Gaulish and Latin: "Boundary marking the area which Acisios Argantocomaterecos dedicated jointly to the gods and to men, (an area defined) by the manner in which the boundary stones, numbering four, were erected.
Etruscan script, itself derived from an archaic Greek alphabet, was used by the Cisalpine Gauls to write their language. Other Celtic-speaking peoples had gone before them in this regard, as evidenced by the so-called Iepontic funerary inscriptions from the Lugano region, the oldest of which
date from around 500 BCE.
Source: Le musée de Bibracte

1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻6h ago

#FindsFriday #Celtic: Drawing of a Gallo-Greek inscription: "Segomaros, son of Villonos, citizen of Nîmes, dedicated this sacred lyre to Belesama". `The Greek
script was introduced into southern Gaul by settlers from Phocaea (Asia Minor) who founded Marseille around 600 BCE.
It was only from the 3rd century onwards that the people of western Provence and eastern Languedoc began to use the Greek alphabet to transcribe their language onto funerary and religious inscriptions. This practice reached Burgundy at the beginning of the 1st century BCE, as shown
by the graffiti on pottery from Bibracte.`
Source: Le musée de Bibracte

1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻8h ago

#FindsFriday #Celtic: `The famous Mšecké Žehrovice Head is the most striking portrait available of a Late Iron Age Celt. It obeys the iconographic conventions of other depictions of humans of this period, and is distinguished by the artistic quality of the representation. With its fixed and inscrutable gaze, its distinctly non-classical hairstyle and moustache, it perfectly symbolises the ever-enigmatic Celtic culture.`
Source: Le musée de Bibracte

Ulla Rajala 15h ago

This cist is of a type popular in Hellenistic Praeneste (modern Palestrina). It belongs to the collections of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek and probably belinged to a man, considering the battle scene engraved on its lid. #FindsFriday

1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻Jun 5

#FindsFriday #Celtic: `The inscription in Latin characters refers to the people whose name has been preserved by the city of Reims, which was one of their main oppida. The three busts may suggest a political regime of a triumvirate, as Rome experienced on two occasions in the 1st century BCE.`
Source: Le musée de Bibracte

1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻Jun 5

#FindsFriday: `Drawing of a Celtiberian inscription of central Spain based on Untermann 1997. It records a language of the #Celtic family that is distinct from Gaulish. Most Celtiberian inscriptions use the Iberian alphabet, borrowed from the peoples of Spain’s Mediterranean coast who had themselves adapted it from the Phoenician alphabet to write their language which did not belong to the Indo-European family. The reading of the Guadalajara plaque is uncertain.`
Source: Le musée de Bibracte

1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻Jun 5

#FindsFriday #Celtic: `These exceptional inscriptions in the Gallic language indicate, on the one hand, the denomination of the coin (“half-as of the Lexovian people”) and, on the other, the names and titles of two magistrates. Cisiambos is a vergobretos, the supreme magistrate; Maupennos is an argantodannos, the official responsible for the mint. According to Caesar, the vergobret, appointed for one year, has the power of life and death over his fellow citizens.`
Source: Le musée de Bibracte

1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻Jun 5

#FindsFriday #Celtic: Drawing of a Gallo-Latin inscription: "Martialis, son of Dannotalos, dedicated this building to Ucuetis and to the Torgerons who worship Ucuetis at Alesia"
Discovered in 1839 and linked to a public building subsequently unearthed on Mont-Auxois, this inscription reveals the ancient name of the site. It was not until the end of the 1st century BCE that the Latin alphabet supplanted the Greek alphabet for writing the Gallic language. This practice continued into the 1st century CE, which shows that the Gallic language remained alive for a long timedespite its exclusion from official use.`
Source: Le musée de Bibracte