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History => Ancient and Medieval History => Topic started by: Duncan Head on March 31, 2016, 09:43:54 AM

Title: New Etruscan inscription found on a stone slab in northern Tuscany
Post by: Duncan Head on March 31, 2016, 09:43:54 AM
http://blog.smu.edu/research/2016/03/28/text-in-lost-language-may-reveal-god-or-goddess-worshipped-by-etruscans-at-ancient-temple/
Title: Re: New Etruscan inscription found on a stone slab in northern Tuscany
Post by: Patrick Waterson on March 31, 2016, 07:49:25 PM
70+ legible characters should add something to our exiguous knowledge of Etruscan, assuming it is not just a funerary tablet with the usual formulae.

The state of the stone is probably the reason nobody has yet come up with a transcription.

Fingers crossed ...
Title: Re: New Etruscan inscription found on a stone slab in northern Tuscany
Post by: Duncan Head on September 02, 2016, 09:29:02 AM
Follow-up at http://www.livescience.com/55907-etruscan-tablet-holds-lost-language.html - the goddess is Uni.
Title: Re: New Etruscan inscription found on a stone slab in northern Tuscany
Post by: Patrick Waterson on September 02, 2016, 10:52:38 AM
Good.  Once they are through with this one, they might go back to the Liber Linteus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liber_Linteus) and see if they can make out any more of that.
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