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The Tabula Cortonensis, or the Cortona Tablet in English, is a ca. 2200-year-old artifact found in the ancient city of Cortona, Italy in 1992.
It is the third longest Etruscan inscription so far found, and the longest discovered in the 20th century. This artifact was cast in bronze containing a long 32-line inscription in Etruscan. It was found in Cortona, a Tuscan city known to the Etruscans as Curtun, in 1992, but has been published only in 1999. It measures about 50 x 30 cm, and is about 2-3 mm thick. The table is supposed to be cast at the beginning of the second century BC, and was part of a notarial archive.
Later it had been broken in eight pieces (apparently to be melted) but only seven have been found. The loss of one piece is not considered as serious, since it was situated in the lower left part of the table and is supposed to contain only person's names.
The Tabula represents a notarial act concerning the division of an inheritance (or the sale) of real estate goods (a vineyard, a house and an estate) placed in the territory of Lake Trasimeno, east of Cortona (and now situated in western Umbria).
The text contains, besides 34 already known words, an equal number of previously undiscovered Etruscan words. Moreover, a new alphabetic sign for the letter E (a mirrored 'E') is present on the table. This implies that - at least in the Etruscan dialect spoken in Cortona - the sound corresponding to the letter 'E' has two different quantities.