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Enn Ernits: „Etruscan methods of divination may originate from Ancient Orient. Professor of anatomy, Ludwig Stieda (1900) compared the Etruscan liver diagram with a Mesopotamian find a thousand years older. From there, the art of liver observation spread via the Hetites to Greece and Etruria. Before the cuneiform writing was deciphered, hints on Bablyonian hepatoscopy could be read in the Bible. Babylonian liver models resemble the Etruscan bronze liver. The Ninive library texts name more than a dozen liver-related terms. In the prostasis Babylonians considered the individual features and pathological changes of the liver. The more rare the change in the liver, the more weight the apodoses had. Babylonians also studied the intestines of sheep, paying attention to the positioning of the organs.” (In: Mäetagused 2006/31)

Tehát Ludwig Stieda már 1900-ban észrevette az összefüggést a mezopotámiai és a későbbi etruszk májmodellek között.

Etruscan haruspicy probably reached Etruria via the Hittites, perhaps because the Etruscans originated in Asia Minor. The art of haruspicy was taught in the Libri Tagetici, a collection of texts attributed to Tages, a childlike being who figures in Etruscan mythology, and who was discovered in an open field by Tarchon.

Haruspicy continued to be practiced throughout the history of the Roman empire. The emperor Claudius was a student of Etruscan and opened a college to preserve and improve their art, which lasted until the reign of Theodosius I. In 408, the haruspices offered their services when the Goths under Alaric threatened Rome; Pope Innocent I reluctantly agreed to allow them to help so long as the rituals were kept secret. Further evidence has been found of haruspices in Bath, England where the base of a statue was inscribed to honour a god for a haruspex.

408-ban az etruszk haruspexek felajánlották szolgálataikat a Rómát elfoglaló vizigót (géta, hatti) Alariknak...