Editing Iguvine Tablets (section)

== Discovery ==
There are two versions of the discovery of the tablets. The first one says that a farmer found them in a field near [[Scheggia e Pascelupo|Scheggia]] in 1444. After his death, his son-in-law with his wife and his sister-in-law sold them to the city of Gubbio with a notarial deed on 25 August 1456 for two years' worth of farming rights.<ref name=paolucci4044>Paolucci (1965), p. 40-44</ref> Since Scheggia was the site of the [[temple of Jupiter Apenninus]], an important [[Umbri]]an sanctuary, it is conceivable that the plates were kept in the temple itself.<ref>Paolucci (1965), p. 30-31</ref> The second version, first attested in the 17th century, states that the tablets were found in a basement of the Roman theater in Gubbio.<ref>Paolucci (1965), p. 44</ref> However, given that all the actors involved in the sale of the tablets were natives of Scheggia, that the tradition of finding them in Scheggia has been attested in Scheggia itself since at least the early 1600s, and that the sources of the Gubbio find at the same time attested that the tablets were originally nine and that two of them, loaned to [[Republic of Venice|Venice]], were never returned (which is patently false), it is likely that the latter version of the Gubbio find has a chauvinistic origin.<ref name=paolucci4044/>