Home›Open Questions›How was a mark in a given region of the liver actually read, and how were the regions weighted against one another?Open QuestionsHow was a mark in a given region of the liver actually read, and how were the regions weighted against one another?Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "How was a mark in a given region of the liver actually read, and how were the regions weighted against one another?." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://www.divinityatlas.com/open-questions-index/how-was-a-mark-in-a-given-region-of-the-liver-actually-read-and-how-were-the-regions-weighted-against-one-another.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). How was a mark in a given region of the liver actually read, and how were the regions weighted against one another?. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://www.divinityatlas.com/open-questions-index/how-was-a-mark-in-a-given-region-of-the-liver-actually-read-and-how-were-the-regions-weighted-against-one-anotherCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-how-was-a-mark-in-a-given-region-of-the, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {How was a mark in a given region of the liver actually read, and how were the regions weighted against one another?}, year = {2026}, url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/open-questions-index/how-was-a-mark-in-a-given-region-of-the-liver-actually-read-and-how-were-the-regions-weighted-against-one-another}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXOpen QuestionCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Open QuestionNo book of the Etruscan discipline survives in any language. The Piacenza liver assigns divine names to regions of the organ and says nothing about method, and the Roman authors who describe haruspicy were writing from outside the tradition, often centuries later, and were not attempting to transmit a procedure. Nobody has proposed and defended a reconstruction of the method, so what is missing is evidence rather than agreement.What would resolve this An Etruscan haruspical text of any length would settle it, and a bilingual would settle it decisively. Failing that, a systematic comparison of the Piacenza liver against the far better documented Mesopotamian liver models and their accompanying omen compendia would at least establish whether the two systems share a method, which would constrain the possibilities.OpenEtruscology, Etruscan epigraphy, AssyriologyNancy Thomson de Grummond and Erika Simon (eds.), The Religion of the EtruscansCross-Tradition ConnectionsQuestion OnExtispicy and Haruspicy, Rituals Well-attested Source The Religion of the EtruscansNancy Thomson de Grummond and Erika Simon (eds.)tier 1SourcesThe Religion of the Etruscanstier 1Nancy Thomson de Grummond and Erika Simon (eds.), University of Texas Press, 2006View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year