# Tabula Cortonensis (the Cortona tablet)

> 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…

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# Tabula Cortonensis (the Cortona tablet)

DocumentCC BY-SA 4.02nd century BC

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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:Cortona_Tablet.jpg).

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

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

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

## Where it is kept

[Cortona, Museo dell'Accademia Etrusca e della Città di Cortona (MAEC)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language/places/PLC0DEDSMSM3A6Y/cortona-museo-dellaccademia-etrusca-e-della-citta-di-cortona) · Museum

## Sources 3

- [Pyrgi B et la rédaction de la Tabula Cortonensis](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDMRE41X6E/pyrgi-b-et-la-redaction-de-la-tabula-cortonensis)_SRC_
- [Review of L. Agostiniani and F. Nicosia, Tabula Cortonensis](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDMDN8NGVF/review-of-l-agostiniani-and-f-nicosia-tabula-cortonensis)_SRC_
- [Tabula Cortonensis](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDMD4ADC7M/tabula-cortonensis)_SRC_

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Tabula Cortonensis (the Cortona tablet) [Artifact ART0DEDWANS0YD1]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ART0DEDWANS0YD1
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Museo dell'Accademia Etrusca e della Città di Cortona (MAEC)

Dated

2nd century BC

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CC BY-SA 4.0

Place

[Cortona, Museo dell'Accademia Etrusca e della Città di Cortona (MAEC)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language/places/PLC0DEDSMSM3A6Y/cortona-museo-dellaccademia-etrusca-e-della-citta-di-cortona)

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