Editing Iguvine Tablets (section)

==Decipherment==
The content of the tablets concerns the religions and ceremonies that were celebrated at Iguvium, the town's religious organization and its boundaries.

The first attempt at deciphering their meaning was made by [[Bernardino Baldi]] in the beginning of the 17th century, and he was followed by [[Adriaan van Schrieck]], who believed the tablets were in the [[Low German language]], and interpreted them accordingly. [[Annibale degli Abati Olivieri|Olivieri]] recognized the name of Eugubium in one frequently recurring word. Louis Bourget pointed out that one of the tablets written in the Etruscan letters corresponded with two written in Roman letters. [[Karl Otfried Müller]], in ''Die Etrusker'', showed that in spite of the use of Etruscan letters, the language of the inscriptions was different from the Etruscan language. [[Karl Richard Lepsius|Lepsius]] added to the epigraphical criticism of the tablets, and [[Christian Lassen|Lassen]] and [[Georg Friedrich Grotefend|Grotefend]] made several successful attempts at interpretation. [[Theodor Aufrecht|Aufrecht]] and [[Adolf Kirchhoff|Kirchhoff]], working off of their predecessors and under the scientific method, created a refined interpretation.

The understanding of this text has been a key component in making progress in the decipherment of another ritual text, the Etruscan [[Liber Linteus]].