Thanks Rex for the
> "Tabula Cortonensis" gave Luciano Agostiniani of Perugia University,
the
> chance to add 30 new words to a known vocabulary of about 300 words.
Among
> the words deciphered there is a series of numbers: sar (10), sa (4),
and zal
> (2). Other important new words are: span (lowland), vinac (vineyard),
> celtinei (land), and "eth," which recurs in Etruscan simply means
"and in
> this way."
*vinac seems cognate with *woi-no in IE, *wajnu in proto-Semitic, *wino
in Kartvellian, *wajana in Anatolian.
The Sydney Morning Herald 06/07/99 report on the discovery reported
> But analysts say it brings further knowledge of the grammatical and
lexical > structure of Etruscan, which some think resembles modern
Albanian.
Albanian? Where does this one come from?
One final blast from
http://latin.about.com/education/latin/gi/dynamic/
offsite.htm?site=
http://members.xoom.com/%255FXOOM/Pdictus/etrindex.html
According to Hellanikos though (apud Dion. Hal. I,28) the Etrurian
Thyrrenoí should be identified with the Pelasgians, the mysterious
migrating people that, after wandering in the Aegean sea, settled in
Etruria.
In the view of Anticlides (apud Strab. V, 2, 4) the Etruscans who
arrived in Italy under the leadership of Thyrrenos were Pelasgians and
they belonged to the same strain that colonized the Aegean isles of
Lemnos and Imbros as well as several sites on the Anatolic seaside.
This thesis is reported also in some Rhodian documents going back to
the third century BC, thus partially supporting the assumption that the
Etruscans might have been one of the Peoples of the Sea (the TRSH)
mentioned in the Egyptian sources.
As a matter of fact, the Egyptian inscriptions of Ramses III (1197-1165
BC) relate of the so-called "Peoples of the Sea", i.e. a set of peoples
who came from land and sea to invade Egypt. Some of these peoples were
known under the same name a couple of centuries before, since they were
mentioned among the peoples that supplied mercenary troops to the
Pharaoh during the rule of
Amenophis III and Merneptah (1413-1220 BC). Some of the "Peoples of the
Sea" can be easily identified, as in the case of the Achaei -- called
Jqjwsh.w in the inscriptions -- or the Philistines -- called Prst.w.
The identification of other peoples is debated, as in the case of the
Siculians (Shqrsh.w) and the Sardinians (Shrdn.w). Other peoples can be
identified only in a highly
hypothetical way. Among the latter ones we find the Trsh.w, to be
possibly identified with the Thyrsenoi mentioned by later Greek
sources. These hypothetical identifications are questionable, and the
question is further complicated by the forms these names assumed in the
Egyptian language, thus
making the identification even more complex. For example, the Egyptian
name of the Siculians, i.e. Shqrsh.w, was formerly related both to the
Anatolian place-name of Sagalassos and to the name of a misterious
Palestinian people named Sikalayu. Even the ethnonym Trsh.w, that is
the would-be name of the Etruscans in the Egyptian sources, some
researchers related it to the Anatolian place-names of Tarsus and
Torrebos.
Regards
John