Encyclopedia - Lemnian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Lemnian Language - Translation Of The Lemnos Stele
In order to properly translate the stele, one must sift through a sea of hearsay and speculation that abounds about this cloudy text. Som...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Raetic Language: Encyclopedia - Raetic Language
Raetic or Rhaetic is an obscure language of antiquity, which used to be spoken in the province of Raetia, in the Eastern Alps, to the nor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cippus Perusinus: Encyclopedia - Cippus Perusinus
The Cippus Perusinus or Cippus of Perugia is a stone tablet discovered near Perugia, Italy, in 1822. The tablet bears 46 lines of Etrusca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Liber Linteus: Encyclopedia Ii - Liber Linteus - Discovery
Liber Linteus - Purchase of the mummy. In 1848, Mihajlo Barić (1791–1859), a Croatian minor official in the Hungarian Royal Chancell...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cippus Perusinus: Encyclopedia Ii - Cippus Perusinus - Discussion Of Its Translation
As with most Etruscan inscriptions, translations have not been very trustworthy because of a lack of thorough organization on the part of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eteocretan Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Eteocretan Language - Known Inscriptions
Dreros 1 1: ---rmaw|et|isalabre|komn 2: ---d|men|inai|isaluria|lmo 3: ----tonturonmēa.oaoiewad 4: eturo---munadoa-enē-- 5: --m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pyrgi Tablets: Encyclopedia Ii - Pyrgi Tablets - The Phoenician Text
Since the Phoenician text has long been known to be a Semitic language (related to such languages as Hebrew, Canaanite, Ugaritic, Arabic ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Etruscan Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Etruscan Language - History
The Etruscans are thought by some to be indigenous people of Italy, living there before the Indo-European migration and the arrival of th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kabeiroi: Encyclopedia - Kabeiroi
The Kabeiroi (Cabiri) in Greek myth were a race of gods or god-like beings, closely connected with Hephaistos and with the Mother Goddess...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Etruscan Civilization: Encyclopedia Ii - Etruscan Civilization - Etruscan Society
Etruscan civilization - Kinship. The cemetaries of the Etruscans give us considerable information about their society. They were a mono...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tyrrhenian: Encyclopedia - Tyrrhenian
Tyrrhenian may refer to the Pelasgians (Sophocles Inachus, fr. 256, Thucydides 4.106) the pre-Greek Lemnians the Etruscans the Tyrrhenia...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Etruscan Civilization: Encyclopedia - Etruscan Civilization
Please remove this notice after the article has been expanded. Details are on this talk page or at Wikipedia:Requests for expansion. The ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Etruscan Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Etruscan Language - Sounds
The reconstructed phonemes of Etruscan (IPA encoding): Etruscan language - Vowels. /a/ letter: A /e/ letter: E /i/ letter: I /u/ lette...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Liber Linteus: Encyclopedia Ii - Liber Linteus - Disuse And Disposal
As the Etruscan tongue slowly died out the meaning of the Liber Linteus would have been forgotten: first as a text, and then as a sacred ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Etruscan Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Etruscan Language - Geographic Distribution
Etruscan was spoken in north-west and west-central Italy, in the region that even now bears their name: Tuscany, and in the Po valley to ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Etruscan Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Etruscan Language - Other Less Accepted Theories
The interest in Etruscan antiquities and the mysterious Etruscan language found its modern origin in a book by a Dominican monk, Annio da...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Etruscan Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Etruscan Language - Classification
The majormost consensus is that Etruscan is related only to other members of what is called the Tyrrhenian language family which in itsel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Liber Linteus: Encyclopedia Ii - Liber Linteus - Production
Certain local gods mentioned within the text allow the Liber Linteus's place of production to narrowed to a small area in the southeast o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Liber Linteus: Encyclopedia Ii - Liber Linteus - Text
Liber Linteus - Structure. The book is laid out in twelve columns from right to left, each one representing a "page". Much of the first...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Etruscan Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Etruscan Language - Vocabulary
Due to its isolation, no significant certain translations from Etruscan into modern languages have been produced yet, however we can be f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Etruscan Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Etruscan Language - Texts
Helmut Rix, Etruskische Texte, works as a kind of incomplete thesaurus, a main key to studying the Etruscan language. First of all Rix an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kabeiroi: Encyclopedia Ii - Kabeiroi - Name
The etymology of the name Kabeiroi is unknown, and is probably a loan from the Lemnian language. Semitic kabir ('great') has been compare...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Etruscan Civilization: Encyclopedia Ii - Etruscan Civilization - Language
The Etruscans are generally believed to have spoken a non-Indo-European language. Herodotus (c. 400 BC) records the legend that they came...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Etruscan Civilization: Encyclopedia Ii - Etruscan Civilization - Etruscan Heritage At Rome
Those who subscribe to an Italic foundation of Rome, followed by an Etruscan invasion, typically speak of an Etruscan “influence” on ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Etruscan Civilization: Encyclopedia Ii - Etruscan Civilization - Some Etruscan Cities
The cities that composed the Etruscan Dodecapoli or league of "twelve cities" has no completely authoritative roster. Those Etruscan citi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Etruscan Civilization: Encyclopedia Ii - Etruscan Civilization - Language
The Etruscans are generally believed to have spoken a non-Indo-European language. Herodotus (c. 400 BC) records the legend that they came...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kabeiroi: Encyclopedia Ii - Kabeiroi - Myth
The Kabeiroi in myth bear many similarities to other fabulous races: the Telchines of Rhodes, the Cyclopes, Idaian Dactyls, Korybantes, K...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Etruscan Civilization: Encyclopedia Ii - Etruscan Civilization - Mysterious Origins
On the one hand the Etruscans were said in legend to have come from Anatolia, either Lydia or Troy, where they must have been urbane and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Etruscan Civilization: Encyclopedia Ii - Etruscan Civilization - Some Etruscan Cities
The cities that composed the Etruscan Dodecapoli or league of "twelve cities" has no completely authoritative roster. Those Etruscan citi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lemnian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Lemnian Language - Classification
Due to the high degree of similarity between Lemnian and Etruscan, it has been concluded that the two languages are closely related withi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lemnian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Lemnian Language - The Lemnos Stela
The stela was found built into a church wall in Kaminia and is now at the National Museum, Athens. The 6th-century date is based on the f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lemnian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Lemnian Language - Relationships To Other Languages
Characters similar to those used in Lemnos Stele inscription are also found on some pottery fragments on Lemnos. The Lemnian inscriptions...   » Read the article