[Bonetools] Antler object Puntal del Llops ( Marta Blasco)

[Dr C.M. Hills]

  Dear Marta  of course I did  not intend to suggest Iberian language and 
people were the same as Scandinavians. My point is that your inscription 
could as  well be one written in runes- I  had not realised how similar 
the two alphabets are. I attach an illustration from a paper by a Danish 
runologist, Marie Stoklund in case you are not familiar with runes. I am 
sure I am not the first person to notice this, there is probably a large 
literature comparing them, and suggesting reasons for the coincidence of 
symbol- although most of them seem to represent different sounds. My 
initial thought on seeing your piece was that this  looked like a 
medieval Scandinavian object, but since it is a prehistoric Iberian  
artefact this must be a coincidence.
Best wishes,  Catherine


On 18/11/2016 12:57, Marta Blasco Martín wrote:
> Thank you all of you for your answers and ideas. They’re very
> interesting! Alice, can you give me some references about the antler
> containers which can be found in the
>  Carpathian Basin?
> 
> Chaterine, Iberian language is specific to people who lived in the
> eastern and southeastern regions of the Iberian Peninsula. Is a
> non-Indo-European tongue and it is not related with the Scandinavias
> runes. I send an image.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Marta
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