desimonewayland:The Liver of Piacenza dating to around 100 BC, was discovered in 1877 near the town
desimonewayland:The Liver of Piacenza dating to around 100 BC, was discovered in 1877 near the town of Piacenza in northern Italy. It is a life-sized bronze model of a sheep’s liver covered in Etruscan inscriptions. The liver is subdivided into sections for the purposes of performing haruspicy (hepatoscopy), a form of divination via: Istituto per i beni artistici culturali e naturali della Regione Emilia-Romagna -- source link
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