Abstract
The three golden tablets from Pyrgi, an ancient site on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea, in Lazio, Italy, known as Laminae Pyrgienses discovered in 1964 is the only bilingual Etruscan text of which one tablet is inscribed in Phoenician and the other two in Etruscan. Hoped to be a kind of Etruscan ‘Rosetta Stone’ with identical texts in two languages, the initial enthusiasm turned into disappointment when the researchers realized that the texts were incongruent with each other, the Etruscan being rather paraphrased from the Phoenician, or vice versa. Since then a number of attempts at its deciphering were undertaken but with moderate success. Despite some progress achieved in recent years, there still remain some portions of the Etruscan text that defy sound interpretation of its content. The present paper takes quite a different approach, relying on the astronomical data already alluded to by the texts of the Pyrgi tablets themselves for more promising results. Keywords: Pyrgi tablets, Phoenician, Etruscan, goddesses, astronomy
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