Cippus Perusinus

The Cippus Perusinus is a stone tablet discovered on the hill of San Marco, near Perugia, Italy, in 1822. The tablet bears 46 lines of Etruscan text exquisitely carved into it. This stone tablet is a memorial stele.

The cippus is assumed to be a text dedicating a legal contract between the Etruscan families of Velthina (from Perugia) and Afuna (from Chiusi), regarding the sharing or use of a property upon which there was a tomb belonging to the noble Velthinas.

The date of the inscription is considered to be 3rd or 2nd century BCE. The Cippus is conserved in the National Archeological Museum of Perugia .

Original Text

Teurat tan-na larezu-l am-e vaχr.

Lautn Velθina-ś, eśt-la Afuna-s, spel eθ car-u tezan,

fuśler-i tesn-ś tei-ś Raśne-ś ipa am-a hen.

Naper XII Velthinaθur-aś ar-aś,

peraścem-ul mlesc-ul, zuci enesc-i ep-l, tular-u.

Aule-śi, Velθina-ś Arnza-l, clen-śi,

θi-i θi-l ścuna cen-u, epl=c feli=c Larθal-ś Afuni-ś,

clan, θunχul θe fala-ś.

Χi=em fuśl-e, Velθina hinθa cap-e, muni=cle-t, mas-u,

naper śran=c zl, θi-i falś-ti.

Veltina hut naper penez-ś mas-u.

Acnina cl-el Afuna, Velθina mler zin-ia.

In temam-er cn-l Velθina zi-a śaten-e tesn-e,

Eca Velθinaθur-aś θaura hel-u tesn-e Raśn-e ce-i.

Tesn-ś tei-ś Raśne-ś χimθ, śpel θuta ścu-na, Afuna men-a hen.

Naper ci cn-l har-e ut-uś-e.

Reverse side:

Velθina śatena zuci enesc-i ipa spelane-θi fulum-χva.

spel-θi, rene-θi.

Esta=c Velθina, acil-un-e, tur-un-e, ścu-n-e.

Ze-a zuci enesc-i aθumi=cś.

Afuna-ś penθ-na am-a.

Velθina, Afun[a]θur, un-i ei-n zeri, una cla θi-l θunχulθ-l.

Iχ ca ceχa ziχ-uχ-e.

Notes

See also

• Etruscan civilization
• Tyrrhenian languages
• other Etruscan inscriptions:
  • Liber Linteus
  • Tabula Cortonensis
  • Pyrgi Tablets

References

• Bonfante, Giuliano; Bonfante, Larissa (2002). The Etruscan Language: an Introduction. Manchester, University of Manchester Press. ISBN 0-7190-5540-7. 
• Cristofani, Mauro, et al. (1984). Gli Etruschi: una nuova immagine. Firenze, Giunti Martello. ISBN. 
• Cristofani, Mauro (1979). The Etruscans: A New Investigation (Echoes of the ancient world). Orbis Pub. ISBN 0-85613-259-4. 
• Rix, Helmut (1991). Etruskische Texte. G. Narr. ISBN 3-8233-4240-1.  2 vols.

External links

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