c. 500 BCE

Pyrgi Tablets: Etruscan and Phoenician dedication

Around 500 BCE the Etruscan ruler of Caere, Thefarie Velianas, dedicates a sanctuary at Pyrgi to Uni, equated with Astarte, on gold tablets in Etruscan and Phoenician. Found in 1964, they show Etruscan-Carthaginian ties.