MysteriesEtruscan: the readable language that cannot be fully translatedArtifactsLiber Linteus Zagrabiensis (the Zagreb linen book, ET LL)
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Liber Linteus Zagrabiensis (the Zagreb linen book, ET LL)
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The longest Etruscan text: a linen book of twelve columns, about 1,330 legible words and 230 lines, perhaps 60 per cent of the original, cut into strips in Ptolemaic Egypt to wrap a mummy. Written by one hand in northern Etruria between about 250 and 150 BC; read as a liturgical calendar prescribing offerings to named gods on dated days, but not translated sentence by sentence.
SpeedyGonsales. CC BY 3.0
Copies 2
PhotoSpeedyGonsales · commons.wikimedia.org · 2008-01-30 · CC BY 3.01 step from the original
Transcription excerpts (et ll in the larth dataset)Gianluca Vico and Gerasimos Spanakis, after Rix 1991 and the Etruscan Texts Project · github.com · 2023 · CC BY 4.0Primary source: Larth: Dataset and Machine Translation for Etruscan1 step from the original
Where it is kept
Sources 4
- Die etruskischen Mumienbinden des Agramer NationalmuseumsSRC
- Il Liber Linteus di Zagabria: testualità e contenutoSRC
- Liber linteus zagrabiensis. The Linen Book of Zagreb: A Comment on the Longest Etruscan TextSRC
- Review of L. B. van der Meer, Liber linteus zagrabiensis (and of L. Doklestić, Stjepan Verković)SRC
Cite it
Mysteries Department. (2026). Liber Linteus Zagrabiensis (the Zagreb linen book, ET LL) [Artifact ART0DEDW9VYCNGC]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ART0DEDW9VYCNGC
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title = {Liber Linteus Zagrabiensis (the Zagreb linen book, ET LL)},
author = {{Mysteries Department}},
year = {2026},
note = {Artifact, catalog key ART0DEDW9VYCNGC},
url = {https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ART0DEDW9VYCNGC}
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