Tabula Capuana
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The Tabula Capuana or Tegula Capuana (Latin for clay tablet or brick from Capua , Italian Tegola di Capua ) has the second longest surviving Etruscan text after the Agramer mummy bandage ( Liber linteus ) . The clay tablet measuring 60 × 50 cm was found near Capua in the cemetery of Santa Maria di Capua Vetere in 1898 . It is kept in the Antikensammlung in Berlin and is exhibited in the Altes Museum .
The text contains a ritual calendar of which about 300 words can be read. It consists of 62 lines in 10 paragraphs separated by horizontal lines. The writing is similar to that in Campania in the middle of the 5th century BC. BC, although the text is certainly older. It is an archaic ten-month calendar that begins with the month of March and - according to the previous understanding of the text - describes rites to be performed against certain gods on certain days.
The well-known Etruscan month names are (an asterisk denotes a linguistic reconstruction): March = * velχitna , April = apiras (a) , Mai = anpili (a) or ampner , June = acalva or acal (a) , July = * turane or parθum , August = * hermi , September = celi , October = * χesfer .
literature
- Enrico Benelli (Ed.): Thesaurus Linguae Etruscae . Volume 1: Indice lessicale. 2a edizione completamente riveduta sulla base della prima edizione pubblicata nel 1978 da Massimo Pallottino . Serra, Pisa et al. 2009, ISBN 978-88-6227-147-9 .
- Larissa Bonfante : Etruscan Inscriptions and Etruscan Religion. In: Nancy Thomson de Grummond , Erika Simon (eds.): The Religion of the Etruscans. University of Texas Press, Austin TX 2006, ISBN 0-292-70687-1 , pp. 9-26, here especially pp. 11-12.
- Mauro Cristofani : Tabula Capuana. Un calendario festivo di età arcaica (= Studi etruschi. Biblioteca. 29). Olschki, Florence 1995, ISBN 88-222-4322-6 .
- Francesco Roncalli (ed.): Scrivere etrusco. Dalla leggenda alla conoscenza. Scrittura e letteratura nei massimi documenti della lingua etrusca. Electa, Milan 1985, ISBN 88-435-1175-0 .
Web links
- Adolfo Zavaroni: Etrusca Philologia, Tabula Capuana ( Memento of April 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (Italian) - transcription of the Etruscan text.
- Google Art Project: Tabula Capuana - Zoomable illustration of the clay tablet.