- Iguvine Tables by Jasmine Hicks
Several inscribed bronze tablets dating from the 1st and 2d cent. A.D., discovered in 1444 at Gubbio, Italy (the ancient Iguvium and later Eugubium). Most of them are still preserved there. They set forth the acts of the Attidian Brethren, a corporation of 12 priests. The tablets proved an important aid in understanding ...
- Umbrian by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
... the city of Iguvium (modern Gubbio), which constitute the most extensive early linguistic record (some 5,000 words, dating from between the fourth and first centuries B.C.) in Italy, with the exception of Latin and Etruscan. The inscriptions on the first four tablets and on part of the fifth are written in a local Umbrian alphabet of Etruscan origin, and the rest ...
- Iguvine Tables by Jazmine Burgess
Set of seven inscribed bronze tables written in the Umbrian language and found in 1444 at Iguvium (modern Gubbio, Italy). Some are written in the Umbrian script and others in the Latin alphabet; they probably date from the 3rd to 1st century BC. The tables record liturgy, sacred rites, and regulations of the Fratres Atiedii, a ...
- Cuniform by Webster's
(n.) The wedge-shaped characters used in ancient Persian and Assyrian inscriptions.(n.) One of the...
- Nautical Tables by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
a collection of tables of various quantities required for solving problems in navigation and...