Tabula Capuana

Tabula Capuana
MaterialTerracotta
Height60 cm
Width50 cm
Createdc. 470 BC
Discovered1898
Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Campania, Italy
Present locationBerlin, Germany
LanguageEtruscan
Recent image in the Altes Museum, Berlin

The Tabula Capuana ("Tablet from Capua"; Ital. Tavola Capuana),[1] is an ancient terracotta slab, 50 by 60 cm (20 by 24 in), with a long inscribed text in Etruscan, dated to around 470 BCE,[2] apparently a ritual calendar.[3] About 390 words are legible, making it the second-most extensive surviving Etruscan text.[4] The longest is the linen book (Liber Linteus), also a ritual calendar, used in ancient Egypt for mummy wrappings, now at Zagreb. The Tabula Capuana is located in the Altes Museum, Berlin.[5]

  1. ^ Mauro Cristofani (1995). Tabula Capuana. L.S. Olschki. ISBN 9788822243225.
  2. ^ Bouke Van Der Meer "Some comments on the Tabula Capuana", in: Studi Etruschi 77, 2014 [2015], 149
  3. ^ Jörg Rüpke (4 February 2011). The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine: Time, History, and the Fasti. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 12–. ISBN 978-1-4443-9652-2.
  4. ^ "Tabula Capuana - Unknown". Google Arts & Culture. Retrieved 2019-07-17.
  5. ^ "Tabula Capuana - Unknown". Google Arts & Culture. Retrieved 2019-07-17.