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TM 153869 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/153869

also known as Pa 4.2; Liver of Piacenza

previously also TM 860631 (double)

TM Gallery info The Liver of Piacenza (TM 153869) is a bronze life-sized model of a sheep's liver, the various sections inscribed in Etruscan with the names of gods. It was found by a farmer in 1877, not far from Piacenza, where it is now kept in the Musei Civici.
The liver is no doubt related to the Etruscan custom of predicting the future on the basis of this organ (haruspicy). A recent study has interpreted it as a handheld instrument for the calculation of a religious calendar, the layout of the 16 sections confirming that it was used at the latitude where it was discovered. The date of the Liver is controversial, some suggesting the 4th century BC, others the 1st.

Metadata

Date: early 1st century BC: BC 99 - 75
cf. the 2nd edition

Provenance: Placentia (Piacenza) - Italy (AemiliaThe region ca. 3rd cent. BC - Aemilia (Regio VIII)The Roman provincia ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found & written]
Rix: Settima di Gossolengo

Language/script: Etruscan

Material: metal (bronze) — liver

Content (beta!): other religious text (Rix cat. 4)

More info: WikipediaWikipedia => 949 links in TM

Publications

Meiser e.a., Etruskische Texte. Editio minor (ET2) no. Pa 4.2 (Meiser, Gerhard / Rix, Helmut - 2014) [default]

∙Rix, Etruskische Texte (ET) p. 328-329 no. Pa 4.2 (Rix, Helmut - 1991)

∙Van der Mee, The Bronze Liver of Piacenza (van der Meer, L. B. - 1987)

∙Testimonia Linguae Etruscae (TLE) 719 (Pallottino, Massimo - 1954)

Collections

→ Piacenza, Musei Civici di Palazzo Farnese number unknown

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