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

> 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…

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**ART** 0DEDW9VYCNGC·Artifact · document

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

DocumentCC BY 3.0C. 250 to 150 BC (writing)

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**Not kept here.** This copy isn't ours to show. [See it where it's published](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lanena_knjiga_(Liber_linteus_Zagrebiensis).jpg).

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

**Photo** SpeedyGonsales · commons.wikimedia.org · 2008-01-30 · CC BY 3.01 step from the original

[Where it's published](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lanena_knjiga_(Liber_linteus_Zagrebiensis).jpg)

**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 Etruscan](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDNJJ091N0/larth-dataset-and-machine-translation-for-etruscan)1 step from the original

[Where it's published](https://github.com/GianlucaVico/Larth-Etruscan-NLP/blob/main/Data/Etruscan.csv)

## Where it is kept

[Archaeological Museum in Zagreb (Arheološki muzej u Zagrebu)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language/places/PLC0DEDSAN7SR2A/archaeological-museum-in-zagreb-arheoloski-muzej-u-zagrebu) · Museum

## Sources 4

- [Die etruskischen Mumienbinden des Agramer Nationalmuseums](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDPEJZ5Y5V/die-etruskischen-mumienbinden-des-agramer-nationalmuseums)_SRC_
- [Il Liber Linteus di Zagabria: testualità e contenuto](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDMCJMVA6M/il-liber-linteus-di-zagabria-testualita-e-contenuto)_SRC_
- [Liber linteus zagrabiensis. The Linen Book of Zagreb: A Comment on the Longest Etruscan Text](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDMC0TGPCX/liber-linteus-zagrabiensis-the-linen-book-of-zagreb-a)_SRC_
- [Review of L. B. van der Meer, Liber linteus zagrabiensis (and of L. Doklestić, Stjepan Verković)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDMCBP46SX/review-of-l-b-van-der-meer-liber-linteus-zagrabiensis-and-of)_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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Document

Held by

Archaeological Museum in Zagreb

Dated

c. 250 to 150 BC (writing); 390 BC +/- 45 (radiocarbon date of the linen)

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CC BY 3.0

Place

[Archaeological Museum in Zagreb (Arheološki muzej u Zagrebu)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language/places/PLC0DEDSAN7SR2A/archaeological-museum-in-zagreb-arheoloski-muzej-u-zagrebu)

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