Gaulish

Where
Continental Celtic-speaking Gaul, within the Roman provinces
When
the surviving material is of the Roman period, roughly the second century CE
What survives
A very small corpus of inscriptions in the Gaulish language, of which the Coligny calendar is by far the fullest, read directly rather than through a later redactor.

1 entry

Every entry here carries an evidence grade, because the distance between the evidence and the subject is the first thing to know about this material.

  • The Coligny CalendarPrimary textEvidence grade A of five, A strongest, E weakest: Contemporary insider document, or a dated object

    A bronze plaque from Roman Gaul, in Gaulish, recording a five-year lunisolar cycle. The only calendar document from a pre-Christian Celtic-speaking people.