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What do the Tabula Cortonensis and the Cippus Perusinus record?

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The Cortona tablet names the Cusu family and Petru Scevas, lists witnesses and uses numerals and land terms, and its editors read it as a record of a land transaction⁠[1]⁠[2]. The Perugia stone names the Velthina and Afuna families with boundary vocabulary and is read as a contract or boundary agreement⁠[3]. In both the names and numerals are secure and the verbs and legal terms are argued.

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  1. Luciano Agostiniani: the Cortona tablet's family names, numerals, land terms and witness lists support its reading as a land transaction, a…For: Both texts are legal records concerning land: the Cortona tablet a transaction between the Cusu family and Petru…
  2. Rex E. Wallace: the Cortona tablet's family names, numerals, land terms and witness lists support its reading as a land transaction, a…For: Both texts are legal records concerning land: the Cortona tablet a transaction between the Cusu family and Petru…
  3. Koen Wylin: the drafting formulae of the Cortona tablet have parallels in the shorter Pyrgi tablet B, showing a shared formal…For: Both texts are legal records concerning land: the Cortona tablet a transaction between the Cusu family and Petru…
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