Pyrgi Tablets
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pyrgi-tablets-208-6346632
title:
Pyrgi Tablets
text:
The Pyrgi Tablets are three golden plates inscribed with a bilingual Phoenician–Etruscan dedicatory text. They are the oldest historical source documents from Italy, predating Roman hegemony, and are rare examples of texts in these languages. They were discovered in 1964 during a series of excavations at the site of ancient Pyrgi, on the Tyrrhenian coast of Italy in Latium (Lazio). The text records the foundation of a temple and its dedication to the Phoenician goddess Astarte, who is identified
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description:
Etruscan artifact
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrgi_Tablets
date created:
2003-01-24T05:52:36Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T15:09:49Z
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