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An opening assertion: mankind’s first ever calendar derived from the Moon and observation of its motion: the Moon making an entire revolution around the Earth inspired the idea of a “lunation”, a span of time longer than a single day but relatively short nonetheless.
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Buck 1988, p. 1010.
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Mountdorf 1923, pp. 108–109, provides and comments on the names of the Etruscan months that have survived through the various glossarums. The names of certified or reconstructed Etruscan months are from Caffarello 1975, p. 111.
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See Brandenstein-Mayrhofer 1964, p. 9, and the prior bibliography.
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Kent 1953, p. 206; Brandenstein-Mayrhofer 1964, pp. 151–152.
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TLE 1968, n. 802: αγαλητoρα παιδα. Tυρρηνoι.
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Kent 1953, p. 199.
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On other aspects of the relationship between the Orient and Etruscan civilization, see Magini 2007, Magini 2008 and Magini 2011.
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Magini, L. (2015). The Names of Etruscan and Roman Months. In: Stars, Myths and Rituals in Etruscan Rome. Space and Society. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07266-1_3
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