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Title: Five Texts in Etruscan

Five Texts in Etruscan

Early Gothic Language of Tyrrhenians and Ancient Jutes

by Ilse Nesbitt Jones (Volume editor)
©2002 Monographs XII, 148 Pages
Linguistics
Series: American University Studies , Volume 35

Summary

The mystery of what language Etruscan originated from is solved in the translation of five texts. Etruscan is revealed to be an early Gothic language, a partial forerunner of English through the language of the Jutes. A recipe and text containing genealogical information might be of particular interest to readers. The longest text, which had been wrapped around a mummy, rather than being, as formerly thought, a ritual, recounts the process used to produce continuation of the personal living appearance, the aim of Egyptian mummification.

Details

Pages
XII, 148
Year
2002
ISBN (Hardcover)
9780820440255
Language
English
Keywords
mystery genealogical information ritual mummification
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien, 2002. XII, 148 pp., ill.

Biographical notes

Ilse Nesbitt Jones (Volume editor)

The Editor and Translator: Ilse Nesbitt Jones is a Phi Beta Kappa alumna of the University of Kansas with an M.A. from the University of Tulsa. Her thesis dealt with dialect in Oklahoma in the plays of Lynn Riggs, whose Green Grow the Lilacs was the basis for the Broadway musical, Oklahoma! She has been involved with Etruscan translation more than twenty-five years.

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