The Horse Stela

The Horse Stela is a sculpted fragment of beige sandstone from the La Vispesa archeological site in Tamarite de Litera, Huesca. Important Iberian artifacts were discovered at this site and are now kept at the Huesca Museum. It is decorated with a relief depicting two horses in profile with their heads facing to the right. They are tied to a long, pointed object—possibly the blade of a straight sword. An Iberian inscription is roughly carved at the top of it. It is poorly preserved and barely legible, but some researchers suggest it may say, "biloskere* kieki.beta***ki" (In the stone forge, at the spring on the lower hillside). From a translation by Antonio de la Guardia Sánchez, through Basque and Spanish.