Editing Etruscan language (section)

===Bilingual text===
[[File:Lamine d'oro in lingua etrusca e fenicia con dedica di un luogo sacro a pyrgi.jpg|thumb|The Pyrgi Tablets, sheets of gold with a bilingual treatise in Etruscan (center and right) and [[Phoenician language|Phoenician]], at the [[National Etruscan Museum|Etruscan Museum in Rome]]]]
The [[Pyrgi Tablets]] are a bilingual text in Etruscan and [[Phoenician language|Phoenician]] engraved on three gold leaves, one for the Phoenician and two for the Etruscan. The Etruscan language portion has 16 lines and 37 words. The date is roughly 500 BC.{{sfn|Bonfante|Bonfante|2002|p=58}}

The tablets were found in 1964 by Massimo Pallottino during an excavation at the ancient Etruscan port of [[Pyrgi]], now [[Santa Severa]]. The only new Etruscan word that could be extracted from close analysis of the tablets was the word for 'three', {{Transliteration|ett|ci}}.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Robinson |first1=Andrew |title=Lost languages : the enigma of the world's undeciphered scripts |date=2002 |publisher=McGraw-Hill |publication-place=New York |isbn=0-07-135743-2 |page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780071357432/page/170 170]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780071357432}}</ref>