L’enigma B’oïde al descobert: kastaum i baikar en sengles inscripcions ibèriques sobre una tortera i un vaset de Camps de l’Hospital (Vilademuls)

Abstract

Solving the B'oïde enigma: kaśtaum and baikar in two iberian inscriptions on a spindle whorl and on a small vase from Camps de l'Hospital (Vilademuls) Joan Ferrer i Jané Marina Sànchez Rodríguez En aquest treball s'estudien dues inscripcions ibèriques inèdites procedents de Vilademuls, una tortera i un petit vaset. Entre els diversos elements familiars que s'hi documenten destaquen kaśtaum, que es confirma com a element lèxic característic de les torteres, i baikar, que es confirma com a element lèxic característic dels petits vasos, repetint el mateix fet ja documentat al jaciment proper de Sant Julià de Ramis. Aquestes inscripcions també són molt interessants des del punt de vista paleogràfic pel fet de presentar un signe molt poc freqüent, anomenat B'oïde per la seva forma propera a una B, fins ara només documentat clarament a l'ostrakon de Pontós, jaciment molt proper a Vilademuls, en un segment que ara s'haurà de llegir turin i que es pot relacionar amb el primer element de l'antropònim TVRINNVS. En aquest cas, la fortuna ha fet que el signe conflictiu aparegui en tres elements lèxics ben coneguts, baikar al vaset i egiar i el morf ar a la tortera, cosa que permet classificar-lo com una variant del signe r. Paraules clau: inscripció ibèrica, llengua ibèrica, escriptura ibèrica, torteres. This paper analyses two unpublished Iberian inscriptions on a spindle whorl and a small vase from the site of Vilademuls. Among the different familiar lexical elements are two inscriptions, notably kaśtaum and baikar. The first is established as a lexical element characteristic of spindle whorls while the second is confirmed to be characteristic of small vessels as is the case at the nearby site of Sant Julià Ramis. These inscriptions are also interesting from the palaeographic point of view as they present an unusual letter labelled B'oïde due to its form that resembles the Latin B. This sign, to date, is only clearly identified on an ostrakon of Pontós, a nearby site, in a line that now should be read turin and that can be linked to the first element of the anthroponym TVRINNVS. In this case, luck would have it that the problematical letter appears in three well known lexical elements: baikar on the small vase and egiar and the morph ar on the spindle whorl which allows to classify it as a variant of the letter r.

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