Tabula Capuana

The Tabula Capuana or Tegula Capuana, is Latin for clay tablet of Capua (Italian Tegola di Capua ) - after the Agram mummy bandages ( Liber linteus ) - the second longest surviving Etruscan text. It is located on a 1898 at Capua in the cemetery of Santa Maria di Capua Vetere found today and in the Altes Museum of Berlin State Museums preserved tablet in 60 × 50 cm, containing a ritual calendar of which are about 300 words to be legible.

The text consists of 62 lines in 10 demarcated by horizontal lines paragraphs. The font is similar to that used in Campania in the middle of the 5th century BC, although the text is certainly older. It is an archaic ten-month calendar that begins with the month of March and - according to previous text understanding - on certain days to certain gods performed rites describes.

The ten Etruscan month names are ( an asterisk denotes a linguistic reconstruction): March = * velxitna April = apiras ( a) May = anpili ( a) or Ampner June = acalva or acal ( a), July = * Turane or parθum, August = * hermi, September celi = October = * xesfer.