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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 Etruscan influenced Latin but was eventually completely superseded by it.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 Etruscan civilization (/ ɪˈtrʌskən / ih-TRUS-kən) was an ancient civilization created by the Etruscans, a people who inhabited Etruria in ancient Italy, with a common language and culture who formed a federation of city-states. [2] After conquering adjacent lands, its territory covered, at its greatest extent, roughly what is now ...
The Corpus Inscriptionum Etruscarum (Body of Etruscan inscriptions) is a corpus of Etruscan texts, collected by Carl Pauli and his followers since 1885. After the death of Olof August Danielsson in 1933, this collection was passed on to the Uppsala University Library . The CIE serves as a valuable reference index for many Etruscan texts, using ...
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 ...
A rune is a letter in a set of related alphabets known as runic alphabets native to the Germanic peoples. Runes were used to write Germanic languages (with some exceptions) before they adopted the Latin alphabet, and for specialised purposes thereafter. In addition to representing a sound value (a phoneme), runes can be used to represent the ...
View from the general vicinity of Falerii to Monte Soratte on the southern border. The Falisci[a] were an Italic tribe who lived in what is now northern Lazio, on the Etruscan side of the Tiber River. [1] They spoke an Italic language, Faliscan, closely related to Latin. Originally a sovereign state, politically and socially they supported the ...
Epigraphy. Tamil to inscribe on Brihadeshwara temple, Thanjavur, India. Epigraphy (from Ancient Greek ἐπιγραφή (epigraphḗ) 'inscription') is the study of inscriptions, or epigraphs, as writing; it is the science of identifying graphemes, clarifying their meanings, classifying their uses according to dates and cultural contexts, and ...
Old Latin surviving in inscriptions is written in various forms of the Etruscan alphabet as it evolved into the Latin alphabet. The writing conventions varied by time and place until classical conventions prevailed. A part of old inscriptions, texts in the original writing system have been lost or transcribed by later copyists. [citation needed]