Caisaros, the Cecciq Group, and Argailo -- A Celtiberian Hospitality Tessera

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A Good Works Translation from Hesperia BDHespP.02.01

A bronze tessera in the shape of clasped right hands preserves a compact Celtiberian hospitality formula in Latin letters. The inscription names Caisaros of the Cecciq group and Argailo, placing a social bond in the small legal-religious world of Celtiberian hospitality tokens.

Translation

Caisaros of the Cecciq group: a hospitality pact with Argailo.

Translation Note

The Hesperia text reads CAISAROS CECCIQ(VM) K(A)R / ARGAILO. K(A)R is the Celtiberian institutional word commonly connected with hospitality, friendship, or the pact-token itself. CECCIQ(VM) is kept as a group or family-name genitive, and ARGAILO is rendered as the other named party in the compact formula. Because Celtiberian syntax remains partly debated, the translation keeps the sentence elliptical rather than adding a full legal verb.

Object Note

Hesperia records the object as BDHespP.02.01, from Paramo Ciudad at Paredes de Nava in Palencia, with reference K.15.01. It is a bronze hospitality tessera formed as clasped right hands, written in Latin letters by puncturing, and held by the Archaeological Museum of Palencia. The complete text is short, but it is a whole object inscription, not an excerpt from a longer source.

Colophon

This page translates Hesperia BDHespP.02.01 from Celtiberian for the Celtic continental expansion of the Good Work Library. The object is included as a complete Celtiberian hospitality-tessera witness and as part of the wider push to make continental Celtic legal and ritual sources visible beside the better-known classical narratives.

Compiled and formatted for the Good Work Library by the New Tianmu Anglican Church, 2026.

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Source Text: Hesperia BDHespP.02.01, Caisaros, the Cecciq Group, and Argailo

Celtiberian source text from Hesperia BDHespP.02.01, a bronze hospitality tessera from Paramo Ciudad, Paredes de Nava, Palencia. Presented here for reference, study, and verification alongside the English translation above.

Hesperia BDHespP.02.01 source text:

CAISAROS CECCIQ(VM) K(A)R
ARGAILO

Source-close rendering:

Caisaros of the Cecciq group: a hospitality pact with Argailo.

Source Colophon

The Hesperia locality, general, text, and bibliography pages for BDHespP.02.01 were captured on 2026-05-13 and inspected on disk at Tulku/Tools/celtic/sources/first_english_scout_2026-05-13/celtiberian/paredes_de_nava/. Source text page: http://hesperia.ucm.es/consulta_hesperia/Texto.php?file=file_88.php&filtrar=&valor=&id=2169. The source-close English rendering is a New Tianmu Anglican Church Good Works Translation made from the inspected Hesperia Celtiberian text.

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