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Pyrgi Tablet

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By Jeff A. Benner


Description: The gold sheet, discovered in Pyrgi Italy, is written in the Phonecian language, another sister language to Hebrew, and is written in parallel with an Etruscan inscription.

Era: Middle Semitic Script

Image Credit: Unknown

Date of Inscription: c. 500 BCE

Location of Discovery: Pyrgi, Italy (Modern day Santa-Severa)

Date of Discovery: ?

Current Location: National Etruscan Museum, Rome

Language: Phonecian

Writing Surface: Gold Sheet

Transliteration: TBD

Translation: TBD

Comments: The entire tablet consists of three leaves written in Phonecian and Etruscan and was instrumental in deciphering the Etruscan alphabet.