Tabula Capuana


The Tabula Capuana, is an ancient terracotta slab, 60 by 50 centimeters, with a long inscribed text in Etruscan, apparently a ritual calendar, of which about 390 words are legible. It is located in the Altes Museum, Berlin. It is the second-most extensive surviving Etruscan text.

Description

s divide the text into ten sections. The writing is most similar to that used in Campania in the mid 5th century BC, though surely the text being transcribed is much older. It is an archaic ten-month year beginning in March.
Attempts at deciphering the text are most generally based on the supposition that it prescribes certain rites on certain days of the year at certain places for certain deities. The text itself was edited by Francesco Roncalli, in Scrivere etrusco 1985.

Discovery

The tablet was uncovered in 1898 in the burial ground of Santa Maria Capua Vetere.