Not a coin but ancient bronze.

I just received this in the mail today to go along with all of my other Iberian coins and artifacts.
Not sure what it would have been for but looks to be a fish witch was a very common symbol on Iberian coins and it has a bunch of Iberian letters on it. What do you all think it was for?


AE, Fish with Iberian letters 3 3/4" long , 8.96 grams.

And to keep it on topic here is one of my Iberian coins with some Iberian letters from Castulo

 

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Nice bronze fish, not one I am familiar with though.


Spain, Castulo Mid 2nd century B.C.
Æ Heavy Unit
O: Diademed male head right.
R Sphinx right, left forepaw raised; star to right.
36.36g
34mm
ACIP 2126; SNG BM Spain 1298

 

I think it is great—what does it say?

 

Whatever it is exactly, it's very cool!

 

Anyone else have any ideas ?

 

There's this:

https://omniglot.com/writing/celtiberian.htm

and this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleohispanic_scripts

For the Castulo coin, I get "Ka-S-Te-L-O". With the fish I get "Ka-N-I-Ko-E-Te-U". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

Perhaps a votive object with the offerant’s name?