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The oldest writing in western Europe.
Also known as: Southwest Paleohispanic script
The script used in south-western Iberia, the earliest attested writing of the region.
Writes the Tartessian language of south-western Iberia.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Writes a vowel after a syllabic sign that already implies it, so the notation is systematically redundant — which is the property that let scholars work out which signs were syllabic at all.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Angular stroke-built figures of the Iberian type written right to left, with vowel letters redundantly written after syllabic signs that already contain them.