From Latin tessera -ae, tablet, dice, saint and sign. Small plates commonly metallic with different shapes and figures normally bronze that archaeologists are finding in the deposits of pre and Roman Hispania. His inscriptions committed the inhabitants of the various Hispanic cities to be hospitable to foreigners and involved granting local citizenship. The historian Diodorus Sículo said that the Celtiberians were cruel to their enemies, but with foreigners they behaved very sweetly and kindly.