Linen Book of Zagreb
Linen Book of Zagreb

Author: L. Bouke van der Meer

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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This book is the first complete analysis of and comment on a unique Etruscan document, the Liber linteus zagrabiensis, the linen book of Zagreb, better known as the Mummy Wrappings of Zagreb, dated to the first half of the second century BC, containing the longest Etruscan text (c. 1330 words). It was made in Etruria and later on reused in Egypt. There the book was cut into eight strips, five of which were partly preserved. The book contains twelve columns or 'pages'. C. 60% of the original text has been preserved.

Votives, Places, and Rituals in Etruscan Religion
Votives, Places, and Rituals in Etruscan Religion

Author: Margarita Gleba

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 9004170456

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By considering votive, mortuary and secular rituals, the volume offers a contribution to the continued study of Etruscan culture and gathers new material, interpretations and approaches to the less emphasized areas of Etruscan religion.

Divining the Etruscan World
Divining the Etruscan World

Author: Jean MacIntosh Turfa

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-07-16

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 1139536400

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The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar is a rare document of omens foretold by thunder. It long lay hidden, embedded in a Greek translation within a Byzantine treatise from the age of Justinian. The first complete English translation of the Brontoscopic Calendar, this book provides an understanding of Etruscan Iron Age society as revealed through the ancient text, especially the Etruscans' concerns regarding the environment, food, health and disease. Jean MacIntosh Turfa also analyzes the ancient Near Eastern sources of the Calendar and the subjects of its predictions, thereby creating a picture of the complexity of Etruscan society reaching back before the advent of writing and the recording of the calendar.

The Liber Linteus
The Liber Linteus

Author: Fred Woudhuizen

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9783851242317

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"With this book, dealing with the Zagreb 'Liber Linteus' (formerly known as Agramer Mumienbinde), the longest extant Etruscan text, the author further strengthens his case that Etruscan is basically a colonial dialect influence from Greek, Latin and the other Italic idioms mainly in its vocabulary. The text of the 'Liber Linteus' is shown to be liturgical in character, several of the divinities featuring in it and much of the cult vocabulary being paralleled in the context of the Anatolian Indo-European languages. "Finally, there can be no doubt that Etruscan just like Luwian hieroglyphic, is an Indo-European language of the "entum"--Type" (p.161). The book provides full translation and commentary of the text, in addition grammatical and etymological indexes and a complete word index."

The Bronze Liver of Piacenza
The Bronze Liver of Piacenza

Author: MEER.

Publisher: Brill

Published: 2022-08-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789004528949

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This book deals with the Iecur Placentinum, the bronze model of a sheep's liver, bearing 42 Etruscan inscriptions. The Piacenza Liver is a highly interesting document of the utmost importance for the understanding of Etruscan religion. It will appear that the network with the inscribed names of divinities on both sides of the Liver depicts a microcosmos reflecting the macrocosmos, the Etruscan division of heaven.

Religion in Ancient Etruria
Religion in Ancient Etruria

Author: Jean-René Jannot

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780299208448

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This timely volume embraces and interprets the increasingly broad and deep canon of life narratives by African Americans. The contributors discover and recover neglected lives, texts, and genres, enlarge the wide range of critical methods used by scholars to study these works, and expand the understanding of autobiography to encompass photography, comics, blogs, and other modes of self-expression. This book also examines at length the proliferation of African American autobiography in the twenty-first century, noting the roles of digital genres, remediated lives, celebrity lives, self-help culture, non-Western religious traditions, and the politics of adoption. The life narratives studied range from an eighteenth-century criminal narrative, a 1918 autobiography, and the works of Richard Wright to new media, graphic novels, and a celebrity memoir from Pam Grier."

The Etruscan Language
The Etruscan Language

Author: Giuliano Bonfante

Publisher:

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13:

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This well-illustrated volume provides the best collection of Etruscan inscriptions and texts currently in print. A substantial archeological introduction sets language and inscriptions in their historical, geographical, and cultural context. The overview of Etruscan grammar, the glossary, and chapters on mythological figures all incorporate the latest innovative discoveries.