Lead Plaque of Magliano

The lead plate was found in February 1882 in a field 2 km southeast of Magliano in the Albegna river valley, near the former monastery of Santa Maria in Borraccia.

[4][5] The text seems to be a series of dedications to various gods and ancestors (in bold below): Cautha, "the gods of this place," Maris Menita ("Maris the Maker"), and "the ancestors" (af-r- or "forefathers" < ap "father") on side A; Thanr and Calus, Śuri, Tinin the area of Lur, and (?)

[6] With over 70 individual words, the text differs significantly from the thousands of short Etruscan grave inscriptions.

[And a dedication must be made] in the sacred alcove (?literally "in a/the small holy place" fal-za-thi) [that is] the memorial (man) for the deceased (neśl) of the Murina [family]."

and take care of [it] (?mlach-the literally "make (it) beautiful"), monthly (tiu); in addition [dedications must be made?]

For Maris Menita (="the Maker"), for the ancestors, also this [previously mentioned] annually [appointed] village-priest (avil-s-ch eca cepen tuthiu, literally "and of the year this priest of the village") [must make a dedication] in the ciala, [and] in addition in the place of offering, ["and in"?, or "namely"?]

Most of the gods mentioned are associated with the underworld, including Cautha (often mentioned with Suri), Calus (a god of wolves, sometimes used as an epithet of Tin(ia)), Suri, and Lur (though Pittau considers this last to be connected to Latin laurus "laurel" and hence to Apollo).

[10] According to van der Meer, Lur's name may be related to Latin luridus "pale," possibly in contrast with Suri "black."

[11] The word tin on side B is assumed here to be a form of the theonym Tinia, the Jupiter-like head of the Etruscan pantheon, but it could also mean "day."

Also on side B, the deity Thanr is usually associated with divine births and with the goddess of desire Turan.

The word teis generally means "these" as, for example in line 10.16 of the Liber Linteus, other forms of tei- occurring in 2.11, 2.13 and at 9.17.

"[16] The sequence mi menicac marca lurcac apparently includes abbreviations of the terms maris and menita from side A.

[17] The term Maris on side A refers to a set of deities represented on mirrors as babies, but little else is known of their function.

[21] The family name Murina on side A is well known, since inscriptions indicate that members lived in Tarquinia, Volsinii, the Siena region, Chiusi, and Perugia.