Etruscan inscriptions...Etruscan-Latin bilingual inscriptions, all funerary, have little importance with respect to improving knowledge of Etruscan. But inscribed gold plaques found at the site of the ancient sanctuary of Pyrgi, the port city of Caere, provide two texts, one in Etruscan and the other in Phoenician, of significant length (about 40 words) and of analogous content. They are the equivalent of a bilingual......to necropolises) and in understanding the Etruscan language, limit the historical data derivable from Etruscology. The potential for such illumination is seen from the discovery of gold tablets at Pyrgi in 1964 that contain a dedication in Etruscan and Phoenician by the Etruscan king of Caere, Thefarie Velianas, to the syncretized goddess Uni (Juno) Astarte. Datable to about 500 bce, the......18 words surrounding the head and another of 16 words in three lines on an adjacent side. In 1964 two inscriptions on gold tablets, one in Phoenician and the other in Etruscan, were unearthed at Pyrgi.
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