On the Identification of Iberian Gods in the Inscriptions
Abstract
Revived the debate on the identification of gods’ names thanks to the discovery of new Latin inscriptions and to the studies on rock inscriptions by Joan Ferrer, the time has come to review critically these new proposals along with the older ones, and to search for new possibilities. Special attention is paid to the possibility of identification of foreign gods (as it happens in similar epigraphies, such as Greek or Etruscan). Due to their phonotactical rarity Iberian -al and balkar are likely to be lexical borrowings; hence the interpretation of balkar as an adaptation of the god’s name Melqart is especially appealing.
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