Dr. de Grummond shares for the first time a new Etruscan inscription found in June, 2026, at Cetamura del Chianti. It seems to make a rare reference to a little known Etruscan divinity named Thalna, and opens a window for discussion of a group of Etruscan deities that are often ignored. These gods, who often act as Personifications of desirable qualities, can in turn be compared to “High Status” divinities of the Etruscan Pantheon such as Tinia, Uni and Menrva.

Dr. Holland-Goldthwaite discusses the interpretation of the new Thalna inscription from Cetamura, problematic in part because of the way the letter forms are ‘tied together,’ that is, they are written as a ligature that produces a distinctive design, something like a modern business logo. It is an astonishing fact, but a poorly understood one, that the practice of writing names in ligature appears both on Etruscan pottery and in Latin on early Roman coinage, but not on Etruscan coinage.