Etruscan Gold Books of Zagreb
- Date of account
- Hellenistic or Roman-period textile; manuscript entered modern collections in the nineteenth century
- Location
- Now in Zagreb; original find reported in Egypt
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
The Zagreb mummy wrappings, commonly called the Liber Linteus, preserve the longest surviving Etruscan text. The linen was cut into strips and reused to wrap a Ptolemaic-period mummy, creating an unusual transmission history from Italy or the wider Mediterranean to Egypt. Scholars identify much of the document as a ritual calendar, but vocabulary, structure and local cult references remain incompletely understood. It matters for comparing Etruscan religious practice with Mediterranean manuscript circulation. This is an AI-recalled lead; the text is ancient, while the modern object history must be reconstructed from museum and collection records.
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