Estelas ibéricas con lanzas y tropas auxiliares en el nordeste peninsular

Abstract

The discovery, on the NE of the Iberian Peninsula, of several Late Iron Age Iberian stelae, sharing very similar decorations among each other, claims for a more detailed study. This paper clearly wants to undertake so. As to the motifs, groups of vertical lances sculped on the stone at one or several horizontal levels have been traced, perhaps linked with another group of stelae generally located in Lower Aragon (North Central Spain). Traditionally, such stelae have been related to the funerary warrior cult. However, according to their location, chronology and associated settlements, I think they might function as landmarks for the Iberian auxiliary troops moving to Southern Gaul between the end of Second and the early First centuries BC.