However, not every recent Basque-language discovery has lived up to its billing. It’s an exceptional situation and one that has allowed us to find an exceptional piece.”
“That means we’ve been able to recover a lot of day-to-day material from people’s everyday lives. “That’s a bit of luck for archeologists and it means we have a snapshot of the moment of the attack,” Aiestaran said. The objects they left behind were buried in the ruins of their mud-brick houses. Mattin Aiestaran, the director of the Irulegi dig, said the site owes its survival to the fact that the original village was burned and then abandoned during the Sertorian war between two rival Roman factions in the 1st century BC. “We were almost convinced that the ancient Vascones were illiterate and didn’t use writing except when it came to minting coins.” “This piece upends how we’d thought about the Vascones and writing until now,” he said.
His colleague Joaquin Gorrochategui, a professor of Indo-European Linguistics at the University of the Basque Country, said the hand’s secrets would change the way academmics looked at the Vascones. “The writing system used is odd - it’s a writing system derived from the Iberian system, although there have been some adaptations to represent some sounds and phonemes that don’t exist in Iberian characters, but which have been seen in coins minted in Vascones territory.”Īs a result, the artifact proves the existence of a specifically Vasconic writing system in use at the time it was made, Velaza said. “This is the first document undoubtedly written in the Vasconic language and in characters that are also Vasconic,” said Javier Velaza, a professor of Latin philology at the University of Barcelona and one of the experts who deciphered the hand. Two residents look on from a balcony displaying a Basque Country flag in Pamplona, Spain, on July 7.
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