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Topic: Etruscan Daily Life 
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Message: recording time
Author: - Fabrisia Fabius 
Date: Mar 22, 1999 17:43
      The Etruscans had a very unusual method of recording time, at the close of 
      each year they ceremoniously drove a year nail into the wall of the temple 
      of the goddess Nortia  to record it's passing. 

      Does anyone know more of this custom????








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