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.]] The Etruscan s were a race of unknown origin from North Italy who were eventually integrated into Rome . Many of the deities listed below were eventually part of the Roman Pantheon . Very few Etruscan texts have survived: only two short, incomplete texts, and only a modest number of grave inscriptions, the Etruscan language itself is not yet very well understood. The works of earlier Latin writers on Etruscan religious survivals would have filled the gap, if any of them had survived. Any modern discussion of Etruscan mythology will have to be based on the publication of the Praenestine ''cistae:'' some two dozen fascicles of the ''Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum'' have now appeared. Specifically Etruscan mythological and cult figures appear in the ''Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae''. Etruscan inscriptions have recently been given a more authoritative presentation by Helmut Rix, ''Etruskische Texte''. The primary trinity included Tinia , Uni and Menrva . LIST OF ETRUSCAN MYTHOLOGICAL FIGURES SEE ALSO |
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