Tabula Cortonensis (the Cortona tablet)

Not kept here. This copy isn't ours to show. See it where it's published.

A bronze tablet, 45.8 by 28.5 cm, broken in antiquity into eight pieces of which seven survive, handed to the police in Cortona in 1992 and published in 2000. About 200 words in 40 lines on two faces, the longest Etruscan text found in the twentieth century; read as the record of a land transaction between the Cusu family and Petru Scevas, with witness lists.

Nancy T. de Grummond. CC BY-SA 4.0

Copies 1

PhotoNancy T. de Grummond · commons.wikimedia.org · 2005 · CC BY-SA 4.01 step from the original

Where it's published

Where it is kept

Cortona, Museo dell'Accademia Etrusca e della Città di Cortona (MAEC) · Museum

Sources 3

Cite it

Mysteries Department. (2026). Tabula Cortonensis (the Cortona tablet) [Artifact ART0DEDWANS0YD1]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ART0DEDWANS0YD1

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  author    = {{Mysteries Department}},
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