Book Title: Alphabet Key To History Of Mankind
Author(s): David Diringer
Publisher: Hutchinsons Scientific and Technical Publications

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________________ ETRUSCAN AND ITALIC 491 There are many funerary inscriptions, the most important being the inscription in nine lines of the Grotta del Tifone at Tarquinia, the inscription of the hypogeum near the Tower of S. Manno (Perugia), consisting of 28 words, and an inscription on a lid of a sarcophagus at Tarquinia, consisting of nine lines. A gold plate found at Tarquinia also contains nine lines. There are not many other long inscriptions extant, the great majority of the inscriptions consisting of a few words only. They are written on mirrors and domestic utensils, on the walls of tombs, to the www. ANATHSAI TUHUMAN TIMA JAMAT •WINELIBET ARPELITALL ALPHABETS PENANAMA MANOVA SVA 2016 4803812 MARVOHA MEAMBLET 18AJVE A amun admAAN MANMA 31MAGA MAS Voo MOV VIVINGS VORN14121-23 Janige Menicimave VAKVOM JIMME MENYRAMJAPANES avanyas 8 m318 NAMA PHIM GIA. ACHIE 11M1A8101 M311310918MTVRIJ 32 AVBAJEYANINDA VZAM MASTHIA Mamanio MTAMAN AMICI an MAYOR Man and ARMA 3231 VJERAV AMOR MERA MISIMM A3M AMVBA AVONAIVOTE MYEARS 15 16 Fig. 219 1. The stele from Vetulonia. 2. The Perugia cippus left or right or above painted figures, and on statues, the most famous being the inscription on a bronze statue, called the "Orator," discovered in 1566, now in the Archæological Museum, Florence.

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