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The ''Tabula Capuana'' (''Tegola di Capua''), now conserved in Berlin, represents the second most extensive surviving Etruscan text, after the linen book the ''(Liber Linteus)'' used in Egypt for mummy wrappings, now at Zagreb. (The third longest Etruscan inscription now being the cast bronze inscription found at Cortona in 1992, the ''Tabula Cortonensis''.) The ''Tabula Capuana'' (''Tablet from Capua'') is a terracotta slab, 60 by 50 centimeters, with a long inscribed text, apparently a ritual calendar, of which about 390 words are legible. Horizontal scribed lines divide the text in ten sections. The writing is most similar to that used in Campania in the mid 5th century BC, though surely the text being transcribed is much older. It is an archaic ten-month year beginning in March (Etruscan ''Velxitna''). The only Etruscan name for a month that has survived to us is April (''Apiras(a)''). Attempts at deciphering the text (Mauro Cristofani, 1995) are most generally based on the supposition that it prescribes certain rites on certain days of the year at certain places for certain deities. The text itself was edited by Francesco Roncalli, in ''Scrivere etrusco'' 1985. The tablet was uncovered in 1898 in the burial ground of Santa Maria Capua Vetere. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tabula Capuana」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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