The Bronze Liver of Piacenza: Analysis of a Polytheistic StructureThis book deals with the Iecur Placentinum, the bronze model of a sheep s liver, bearing 42 Etruscan inscriptions. The Piacenza Liver is a highly interesting document of the utmost importance for the understanding of Etruscan religion. It will appear that the network with the inscribed names of divinities on both sides of the Liver depicts a microcosmos reflecting the macrocosmos, the Etruscan division of heaven. |
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Aisera alpan alpnu Appendix Bolsena boundary Bronze mirror Bronze statuette Cath Catha Chiusi Cilens cippus Colonna Cortona Culsans Culsu dedicated divinity Epigraphical data epithet Etruria Etruscan fourth century B.C. Fufluns funerary gall-bladder genitive goddess gods Greek haruspex haruspices Hercle Iconographical aspects incisura inner regions Iovis Italic Iupiter Jupiter Laran lasa left lobe Letham Lethn Liber Linteus Linteus of Zagreb Liver margin Liver of Piacenza Lvsa Lynsa marginal region Maris Martianus Capella Martianus's list menrva mentions methlum Metlvmth Mirror unknown Neth Nethuns Nocturnus Object provenance date occurs Orvieto Pallottino pars familiaris pars hostilis Pfiffig l975 probably provenance date bibliography region 16 right lobe Roman sanctuary Satre Saturnus scene Selva Tarquinia Tecvm terracotta Thalna thesan Thufltha Thulin tinia Tluscv translated tular turan turce Umbrian underworld Usil Veiovis Velch Vetis votive inscriptions Vulcanus Vulci Written sources
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| Title | The Bronze Liver of Piacenza: Analysis of a Polytheistic Structure Dutch monographs on ancient history and archaeology, ISSN 0924-3550 |
| Author | L. Bouke van der Meer |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Brill Academic Pub, 1987 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Jun 19, 2009 |
| ISBN | 9070265419, 9789070265410 |
| Length | 202 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Ancient / General History / Europe / General Social Science / Women's Studies |
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