Talk:Liber Linteus

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[edit] Unwitting

Are experts sure about the unwittingness? I read something about the possibility of the person being of Etruscan ancestry. -- Error 04:29, 12 Oct 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Links

I removed the link http://www.maravot.com/Translation_Zagreb_Mummy.html for the site does not contain any worthwhile information. The translation is based on Etruscan being an Indo-European tongue, which is manifestly is not. Also, the translation makes the text into some kind of religious poem, which again is unlikely. The actual contents are likely to be along to lines of:

March. ...on the eighteenth day sacrifice a calf to the great and holy Tinia, for the sake of the people and the city; on the twentieth day sacrifice two unblemished goats to great Nefluns, for the king and his family; on the twenty-fourth day...

Oswax 15:04, 26 September 2005 (UTC)