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Etruscan (/ ɪˈtrʌskən / ih-TRUSK-ən) [3] was the language of the Etruscan civilization in the ancient region of Etruria, [a] in Etruria Padana [b] and Etruria Campana [c] in what is now Italy. Etruscan influenced Latin but was eventually completely superseded by it. The Etruscans left around 13,000 inscriptions that have been found so far ...
The earliest known examples of Etruscan writing are inscriptions found in southern Etruria that date to around 700 BC. [18] [25] The Etruscans developed a system of writing derived from the Euboean alphabet, which was used in the Magna Graecia (coastal areas located in Southern Italy).
Etruscan alphabet. The Etruscan alphabet was used by the Etruscans, an ancient civilization of central and northern Italy, to write their language, from about 700 BC to sometime around 100 AD. The Etruscan alphabet derives from the Euboean alphabet used in the Greek colonies in southern Italy which belonged to the "western" ("red") type, the so ...
Pyrgi Tablets. 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. They were discovered in 1964 during a series of excavations at the ...
The Old Italic scripts are a family of ancient writing systems used in the Italian Peninsula between about 700 and 100 BC, for various languages spoken in that time and place. The most notable member is the Etruscan alphabet, which was the immediate ancestor of the Latin alphabet used by more than 100 languages today, including English.
Recent image in the Altes Museum, Berlin. The Tabula Capuana ("Tablet from Capua"; Ital. Tavola Capuana), [1] is an ancient terracotta slab, 50 by 60 cm (20 by 24 in), with a long inscribed text in Etruscan, dated to around 470 BCE, [2] apparently a ritual calendar. [3] About 390 words are legible, making it the second-most extensive surviving ...
Etruscan history. A map showing the extent of Etruria and the Etruscan civilization; the map includes the 12 cities of the Etruscan League and notable cities founded by the Etruscans. Etruscan history is the written record of Etruscan civilization compiled mainly by Greek and Roman authors. Apart from their inscriptions, from which information ...
Examples are known of larger numbers, but it is unknown which digit represents which numeral. Most numbers were written with "additive notation", namely by writing digits that added to the desired number, from higher to lower value. Thus the number '87', for example, would be written 50 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 5 + 1 + 1 = "𐌣𐌢𐌢𐌢𐌡𐌠𐌠 ...