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Liber Linteus Zagrabiensis (the Zagreb linen book, ET LL)

DocumentCC BY 3.0C. 250 to 150 BC (writing)
Not kept here. This copy isn't ours to show. See it where it's published.

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

BelgradeLjubljanaVaduzMilanBolognaVeronaTimișoara1Archaeological Museum in Zagreb200 kmViennaBudapestBelgradeSarajevo1200 km

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Liber Linteus Zagrabiensis (the Zagreb linen book, ET LL) [Artifact ART0DEDW9VYCNGC]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ART0DEDW9VYCNGC
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