Poultney James Wilson. The bronze tables of Iguvium

Baltimore: American Philological Association, 1959. — xvi, 333 p. — (Philological monographs, no. 18).At Gubbio (Iguvium), there were discovered in 1444 seven bronze tablets of varying sizes, engraved on one or both sides with texts partly in the native, partly in the Latin alphabet. These are the famous Iguvine Tables. They range in date probably from c.200 bce to the early 1st cent. bce and are the main source of our knowledge of Umbrian language. The texts contain the proceedings and liturgy of a brotherhood of priests, the "Atiedian Brethren", not unlike the Roman Arval brethren. In many details the proceedings show resemblance to Roman ritual and cult. James Poultney's book contains the Umbrian text, English translation, and extensive grammatical analysis.