page_title: Glossary of ancient Roman religion
section_title: disciplina Etrusca
hierarchical_section_title: Glossary of ancient Roman religion / Glossary / D / disciplina Etrusca
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Leber von Piacenza, Orakel, Leberschau, Mantik. English: Liver of Piacenza, Mantik. Français&#160;: Foie de Plaisance (Piacenza, Museo civico). Objet de divination étrusque en bronse. Italiano: Il cosiddetto "Fegato di Piacenza", riproduzione in bronzo di un fegato animale con inciso il nome, in etrusco, delle divinità connesse ad ogni parte dell'organo. Come è noto, gli antichi interpretavano il presunto volere degli dèi esaminando le viscere degli animali sacrificati. Questo è quindi un piccolo "manuale di istruzioni" per gli oracoli. Il manufatto fu trovato nel 1877 ed è conservato nel museo civico cittadino.
context_page_description: The vocabulary of ancient Roman religion was highly specialized. Its study affords important information about the religion, traditions and beliefs of the ancient Romans. This legacy is conspicuous in European cultural history in its influence on later juridical and religious vocabulary in Europe, particularly of the Western Church. This glossary provides explanations of concepts as they were expressed in Latin pertaining to religious practices and beliefs, with links to articles on major topics such as priesthoods, forms of divination, and rituals.
  Individual landmarks of religious topography in ancient Rome are not included in this list; see Roman temple.
context_section_description: The collective body of knowledge pertaining to the doctrine, ritual practices, laws, and science of Etruscan religion and cosmology was known as the disciplina Etrusca. Divination was a particular feature of the disciplina. The Etruscan texts on the disciplina that were known to the Romans are of three kinds: the libri haruspicini (on haruspicy), the libri fulgurales (lightning), and the libri rituales (ritual). Nigidius Figulus, the Late Republican scholar and praetor of 58 BC, was noted for his expertise in the disciplina. Extant ancient sources on the Etrusca disciplina include Pliny the Elder, Seneca, Cicero, Johannes Lydus, Macrobius and Festus.
caption: Etruscan liver of Piacenza
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