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    The Liver of Piacenza is an Etruscan artifact found in a field on September 26, 1877, near Gossolengo, in the province of Piacenza, Italy, now kept in...
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    Liver of Piacenza, a bronze model of a sheep's liver for the purposes of haruspicy was discovered in 1877 at Gossolengo just to the south of Piacenza...
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    Usil (category Epithets of Śuri)
    bronze liver of Piacenza, next to Tiur, meaning both "moon" and "month", since then Tiur has been identified as the name of the personification of the moon...
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    liver while a crowd gathers near him. Another significant artifact relating to haruspicy in Ancient Italy is the Piacenza Liver. This bronze model of...
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    face) of the bronze Liver of Piacenza, which is separated into two lobes. Initially, some researchers supposed that the first lobe, where the gods of the...
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    BC. This seems to refer to Uni. She also appears on the Liver of Piacenza. The name Uni is of uncertain etymology, however may be related to an Indo-European...
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    Satre or Satres was an Etruscan god who appears on the Liver of Piacenza, a bronze model used for haruspicy. He occupies the dark and negative northwest...
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  • to be a curious omission, his name does not appear on the bronze liver of Piacenza. King, C. W. (Charles William) (1872). Antique gems and rings. Getty...
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  • this sanctuary]." Cel appears on the Liver of Piacenza, a bronze model of a liver marked for the Etruscan practice of haruspicy. She is placed in House 13...
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  • Liver of Piacenza, being listed among the 16 gods that rule the Etruscan astrological houses. He is the 9th of those 16 gods. He is the son of Semla and...
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    addition in the place of offering, and in the ichu house L. Bouke van der Meer (1987). The bronze liver of Piacenza. Analysis of a polytheistic structure...
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  • was originally a god of water). Nethuns is mentioned on the Piacenza liver, a third-century BC bronze model of a sheep's liver used for divinatory rites...
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    Sarcophagus of Laris Pulenas – grave inscription of Laris Pulena with nine lines of text on a sarcophagus scroll Liver of Piacenza – model of a sheep's liver with...
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    ISBN 9781931707862 van der Meer, L. Bouke (1987). The Bronze Liver of Piacenza: Analysis of a Polytheistic Structure. Vol. 2 vols. Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben...
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  • Piacenza is a city in Italy. Piacenza may also refer to: Province of Piacenza, a province in Italy Piacenza d'Adige, a town in Italy Piacenza, Wisconsin...
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    Etruria (category Geographical, historical and cultural regions of Italy)
    ih-TROOR-ee-ə) was a region of Central Italy delimited by the rivers Arno and Tiber, an area that covered what is now most of Tuscany, northern Lazio, and...
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  • The Old Italic scripts are a family of ancient writing systems used in the Italian Peninsula between about 700 and 100 BC, for various languages spoken...
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    claims that many of the locations in the year of these deities' rituals correspond to the same deities' locations on the Liver of Piacenza and in other Etruscan...
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    legendary seventh and final king of Rome, reigning 25 years until the popular uprising that led to the establishment of the Roman Republic. He is commonly...
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    Civita di Bagnoregio (category Frazioni of the Province of Viterbo)
    outlying village of the comune of Bagnoregio in the Province of Viterbo in central Italy. It lies 1 kilometre (0.6 mi) east of the town of Bagnoregio and...
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    name is found in two places on the Liver of Piacenza: on the outer rim of section seven, and on the gallbladder of section 28. This last location aligns...
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    The Etruscan alphabet was used by the Etruscans, an ancient civilization of central and northern Italy, to write their language, from about 700 BC to sometime...
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    Apulu (category Epithets of Śuri)
    representation is the Apollo of Veii, attributed to Vulcas. He does not appear on the Liver of Piacenza. The national divinity of the Greeks, Apollo has been...
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    Etruscan language (category Languages of ancient Italy)
    the noble Velthinas. The Piacenza Liver, a bronze model of a sheep's liver representing the sky, has the engraved names of the gods ruling different...
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  • Myths. University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-70606-5. Thulin, Carl (1906). Die Götter des Martianus Capella und der Bronzeleber von Piacenza (in German). Alfred...
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    Villanovan culture (category Archaeological cultures of Europe)
    culture of Central Europe. The name derives from the locality of Villanova, a fraction of the municipality of Castenaso in the Metropolitan City of Bologna...
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    extinct family of closely related ancient languages put forward by linguist Helmut Rix in 1998, which consists of the Etruscan language of northern, central...
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    evidence of there being a cult dedicated to Ethausva, however her name is included on the Bronze liver of Piacenza. This bronze diagram of a sheep liver has...
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    Carl (1906). Die Götter des Martianus Capella und der Bronzeleber von Piacenza (in German). Alfred Töpelmann. Cicero, Marcus Tullius (1923) [44 BC]. W...
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  • among those of the deities on the Liver of Piacenza. She appears a few times in Latin literature and inscriptions. She is mentioned in one of Juvenal's...
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