# The bronze liver of Piacenza

> A life-size bronze model of a sheep's liver, 12.6 by 7.6 cm, found by a ploughman at Settima di Gossolengo near Piacenza in 1877 and dated to the late…

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**ART** 0DEDWBQGDX3R·Artifact · object

# The bronze liver of Piacenza

ObjectCC0 1.0Late 2nd to early 1st 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:Foie_de_Plaisance.jpg).

A life-size bronze model of a sheep's liver, 12.6 by 7.6 cm, found by a ploughman at Settima di Gossolengo near Piacenza in 1877 and dated to the late second or early first century BC. Its upper surface is divided into an outer ring of 16 regions and inner compartments, each inscribed with an abbreviated divine name, about 40 in all; it is read as a diviner's teaching model mapping gods to regions of the sky and anchors most of what is known of the Etruscan pantheon.

Shonagon. CC0 1.0

## Copies 1

**Photo** Shonagon · commons.wikimedia.org · 2014-01-20 · CC0 1.01 step from the original

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

## Where it is kept

[Piacenza, Musei Civici di Palazzo Farnese](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language/places/PLC0DEDSNGD3WM1/piacenza-musei-civici-di-palazzo-farnese) · Museum

## Sources 1

- [The Bronze Liver of Piacenza: Analysis of a Polytheistic Structure](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDMRN8F5GP/the-bronze-liver-of-piacenza-analysis-of-a-polytheistic)_SRC_

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). The bronze liver of Piacenza [Artifact ART0DEDWBQGDX3R]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ART0DEDWBQGDX3R
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Key

**ART** 0DEDWBQGDX3R

Kind

Object

Held by

Musei Civici di Palazzo Farnese, Piacenza

Dated

late 2nd to early 1st century BC

Licence

CC0 1.0

Place

[Piacenza, Musei Civici di Palazzo Farnese](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language/places/PLC0DEDSNGD3WM1/piacenza-musei-civici-di-palazzo-farnese)

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[Etruscan: the readable language that cannot be fully translated](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language)

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