# Both texts are legal records concerning land: the Cortona tablet a transaction between the Cusu family and Petru…

> Still possible: Both texts are legal records concerning land: the Cortona tablet a transaction between the Cusu family and Petru Scevas before witnesses…

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# Both texts are legal records concerning land: the Cortona tablet a transaction between the Cusu family and Petru…

Both texts are legal records concerning land: the Cortona tablet a transaction between the Cusu family and Petru Scevas before witnesses, the Perugia stone an agreement between the Velthina and Afuna families.

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## Where it stands

**Still possible** Two pieces of evidence for, none against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Further legal texts will repeat the same formulae for transfer and witness.
- The terms read as land units will recur with numerals.

## What would rule it out

- The witness lists prove to be lists of dedicants or of the dead.

## Evidence 2 for · none against

[The Cortona tablet's family names, numerals, land terms and witness lists support its reading as a land transaction, a…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language/evidence/EVD0DEECP2TWRQ3/the-cortona-tablets-family-names-numerals-land-terms-and)

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[The drafting formulae of the Cortona tablet have parallels in the shorter Pyrgi tablet B, showing a shared formal…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language/evidence/EVD0DEECPEJFAQN/the-drafting-formulae-of-the-cortona-tablet-have-parallels)

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## The questions it answers

[What do the Tabula Cortonensis and the Cippus Perusinus record?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language/questions/QST0DEDYN46C7BJ/what-do-the-tabula-cortonensis-and-the-cippus-perusinus)

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