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Tabula Cortonensis
The Tabula Cortonensis (sometimes also Cortona Tablet) is a 2200-year-old, inscribed bronze tablet of Etruscan origin, discovered in Cortona, Italy. It may record for posterity the details of an ancient legal transaction which took place in the ancient Tuscan city of Cortona, known to the Etruscans as "Curtun". Its 40-line, two-sided inscription is the third longest inscription found in the Etruscan language, and the longest discovered in the 20th century. While the discovery was made in October 1992, the
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- Giulio M. Facchetti, Frammenti di diritto privato etrusco, Firenze, Olschki, 2000.
- Scarano Ussani & Torelli, "La Tabula Cortonensis. Un documento giuridico, storico e sociale" (Napoli, 2003).
- de Simone, Carlo (2007) 'Alcuni termini chiave della Tabula Cortonensis', "Rasenna: Journal of the Center for Etruscan Studies", Vol. 1: Iss. 1, Article 1