{"database": "deitydb", "table": "periods", "rows": [["PER_IB_IRON_AGE", "Iberian/Lusitanian", "Pre-Roman and Roman-period Hispanian Indigenous Religion", -600, 400, "The period of the pre-Roman indigenous religious tradition of the Iberian peninsula, particularly the Lusitanian/NW Iberian zone (modern Portugal, Galicia, and Extremadura), from the Iron Age through the Roman provincial period. The indigenous religion of Hispania before Roman conquest (the systematic conquest of Lusitania was completed by 27 BCE under Augustus after a long series of wars) is known almost exclusively through Latin votive inscriptions of the Roman period \u2014 the 1st to 4th centuries CE \u2014 which preserve pre-Roman theonyms that resisted complete Romanization. The Lusitanian language (a pre-Celtic or para-Celtic Indo-European language of the peninsula) is attested in a handful of inscriptions, most importantly the Bronze Plaque of Arronches (c. 1st c. CE, from a sanctuary in the Portalegre district, Portugal), which preserves a religious ritual text with theonyms including Trebaruna, Reve, Laebo, and Ilurbeda. The distribution of votive inscriptions for indigenous deities (Endovelicus at S\u00e3o Miguel da Mota, Ataegina across SW Iberia, Bandua across a broad NW-to-SE axis, Nabia in the NW) gives a picture of a polytheistic tradition tied to landscapes (rivers, mountains, healing springs) and community life (oath-bonds, tribal solidarity). Bl\u00e1zquez (1962) and Olivares Pedre\u00f1o (2002) are the primary scholarly references."]], "columns": ["period_id", "tradition", "period_name", "start_year", "end_year", "notes"], "primary_keys": ["period_id"], "primary_key_values": ["PER_IB_IRON_AGE"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.6939400000192109, "source": "jebboone/deitydb", "source_url": "https://github.com/jebboone/deitydb", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT"}