[1] As of 2014, 20 letters are considered consensual (including all 5 vowels, 10 stops, and 5 non-stops), while all others (more than 10) remain hypothetical.
A similar convention is found in Etruscan for /k/, which was written as "ka," "ce," "ci," or "qu," depending on the following vowel.
The main difference is that the southeastern Iberian script does not exhibit the vocalic redundancy of the syllabic signs.
[3][4][5] The inscriptions likely had a funerary purpose, although the lack of well-documented archaeological contexts for the findings makes it difficult to be certain.
[1] This same factor prevents the establishment of a precise chronology, but the script is generally placed within the Iron Age, roughly between the 8th and 6th centuries BCE.