Śalir and the identification of commodities in ancient Iberian economic documents
Abstract
On the basis of an approach alternative to the prevailing toponymic hypothesis on the compounds of śalir in Ancient Iberian documents, it is advocated that the terms kalir (for which it had already been considered that it could mean “wheat”), akari, kaŕes, kortia and śoŕor are the names of agricultural commodities. Possibly the first three are names of cereals formed on the same root, whereas for kortia the possibility is raised that it is an adaptation of Latin hordea. In addition, the uses of the term śalir are reviewed and other terms that could be commodities, such as tu(ŕ)s, kibas, oŕti and bekoŕ are discussed.
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