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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.
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