The hand of Irulegi: Aranzadi discovers the oldest testimony of writing in Basque

The hand of Irulegi: Aranzadi discovers the oldest testimony of writing in Basque

It was after a fire during the Sertorian War (from 82 to 72 BC) that what is up to now the oldest written testimony of the Basque language, predecessor of Euskera, was buried. It is about five words in four lines, made up of forty signs, and inscribed on a bronze sheet in the shape of a right hand that has

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