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Lead plaque of Magliano, sides A and B. The Lead Plaque of Magliano (or Lead Plate of Magliano or Lead Disk; CIE 5237), which contains 73 words in the Etruscan language, seems to be a dedicatory text, including as it does many names of mostly underworld deities. [1]
Etruscan religion was influenced by that of the Greeks, and many of the few surviving Etruscan-language artifacts are of votive or religious significance. [17] Etruscan was written in an alphabet derived from the Greek alphabet; this alphabet was the source of the Latin alphabet, as well as other
Language Etruscan The Golden Orphism Book ( Bulgarian : Златна орфическа книга ), also known as the Etruscan Gold Book , is a Thracian artefact consisting of six connected sheets of gold .
The Pyrgi Tablets (dated c. 500 BC) are three golden plates inscribed with a bilingual Phoenician–Etruscan dedicatory text. They are the oldest historical source documents from Italy, predating Roman hegemony, and are rare examples of texts in these languages.
The Etruscans are believed to have spoken a Pre-Indo-European [117] [118] [119] and Paleo-European language, [120] and the majority consensus is that Etruscan is related only to other members of what is called the Tyrsenian language family, which in itself is an isolate family, that is unrelated directly to other known language groups.
Other scholars who focus more on the Etruscan influence on Rome include R. E. A. Palmer, John F. Hall, and H. H. Scullard. Various organizations promote Etruscology. The Etruscan Foundation supports Etruscan scholarship in the United States and abroad. The foundation provides internships and fellowships, and publishes the journal Etruscan ...
Comparative linguistics have long demonstrated that Albanian is a unique branch of the Indo-European languages, whereas the consensus among linguists and etruscologists is that Etruscan was a pre–Indo-European language. [4] [5] [6]
Tyrsenian (also Tyrrhenian or Common Tyrrhenic), [3] named after the Tyrrhenians (Ancient Greek, Ionic: Τυρσηνοί Tyrsenoi) is an extinct family of closely related ancient languages put forward by linguist Helmut Rix in 1998, which consists of the Etruscan language of northern, central and south-western Italy, and eastern Corsica (); the Raetic language of the Alps, named after the ...