New reading and interpretation of a Celtiberian stele from the second half of the 2nd century BC found in Langa de Duero (Soria): retukeno esto ÿeltis, "of Retugenos be it the stele". The archaic inscription, itself apparently shaped as an axe, features an axe at the beginning of the word ke.l.ti.s 'stele' (*kel-ti-s) and may have been commemorating the famous Numantian leader 8Rhtogénhj, called Karaúnioj 'Lovable'. Note the imperative without suffixed subject pronoun and its still preserved -oº #.El presente trabajo colectivo propone una nueva interpretación de la inscripción celtibérica sobre estela de piedra caliza procedente de Langa de Duero (Soria), cuya lectura, desde su descubrimiento en 1928, ha resultado problemática dado que uno de los signos existentes en el epígrafe era identificado como una letra 1 , correspondiendo, por el contrario, a un símbolo 2 probablemente alusivo al estatus del personaje al que está dedicada la pieza.

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P. de B. St. proposes a new dialectology for Ancient Celtic languages, by stressing contacts and common innovations. She also proposes an earlier date for the introduction of Celtic in Spain and Italy : the presence of Celtic (non Gaulish) elements in the Iberian corpus, and in Ligurian would lead to suppose a multiplicity of Celtic layers in both peninsulas. At least, five successive layers of Celtic languages could then be distinguished. Exactly as there were Celts in Spain before the Celtiberians, in the same way in Northern Italy, Lepontic was preceded by a Celtic element present in Ligurian : Ligurian itself would be a Celtic language, partly preserving of Indo-European -p-, and presenting some other remarkable archaisms. The author is thus led to define a Protoceltic somewhat more archaic than has been supposed till now. J. A. A. E. exposes some common features in the material cultures. The authors also suppose that part of the Hispanic Celticity developed under the influence of the Italian Celts, some of whom might have reached the Iberian Peninsula by sea.