The “Linen Book of Zagreb”: The Longest Etruscan Text

The “Linen Book of Zagreb”: The Longest Etruscan Text

The Liber Linteus Zagrabiensis (Latin for “Linen Book of Zagreb”, also rarely known as Liber Agramensis, “Book of Agram”) is the longest Etruscan text and the only extant linen book, dated to the 3rd century BCE. It remains mostly untranslated because of the lack of knowledge about the Etruscan language, though the few words which can be understood indicate that the text is most likely a ritual calendar. Their catalogue described it as follows:

The mummy and its wrappings were examined the same year by the German Egyptologist Heinrich Brugsch, who noticed the text, but believed them to be Egyptian hieroglyphs.

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