Upsilon in the Latin inscriptions of Hispania

Abstract

This paper examines the aberrant usages of grapheme in the Latin inscriptions of the province Hispania. The analyzed corpus includes cases in which both upsilon is replaced by means of , or and cases in which, conversely, replaces , or other spellings within either Hellenic or non-Hellenic words. The situation attested in the Iberian Peninsula is in line with the general situation of the Roman Empire, with Hispania belonging to the group of provinces in which I-spellings prevailed over V-spellings already in the Early Period (1st–3rd c. AD).