Extract from the Lugdunum Tablet (inscription recording a speech to the Senate by the Emperor Claudius in the 40's AD).
If we follow Roman authorities, Servius Tullius' mother was a prisoner of war, Ocresia; if we follow Etruscan authorities, he was once the most faithful companion of Caelius Vibenna and took part in all his adventures; subsequently, driven out by a change of fortune, he left Etruria with all the remnants of the army of Caelius and occupied the Caelian hill, naming it thus after his leader Caelius; Servius changed his name (for his name in Etruscan was Mastarna? and was called by the name I have used and he obtained the throne, to the very great advantage of the state.
-- Etruscologists claim the evidence of the names mentioned in the story of Servius Tullius can be found not only in the Francois Tomb at Vulci, but also engraved in Etruscan on the Etruscan bronse mirror, which reads:
AVLE VIPINAS CACLU ARTILE CAILE VIPINAS
The inscription in the Francois tomb is less verbose since it only appears in a form of names under the two figures, namely Mastarna under a figure depicting Servius Tullius who is freeing his Roman friend Caile Vipina from shackles. --
A related language is the language once spoken on the island of Lemnos, before the Athenian invasion (6th century BC), where a stone tablet written with a script related to Etruscan was found.
All the rest of the recovered inscriptions follow, grouped according to the localities in which they were found: Campania, Latium, Falerii and Ager Faliscus, Veii, Caere, Tarquinia, Ager Tarquinensis, Ager Hortanus, and finally, outside Italy, in Gallia Narbonensis, in Corsica and in North Africa.
The Pyrgi Tablets are a short bilingual text in Etruscan and Phoenician.
At Perigueux, France, a luxurious Roman villa called the Domus of Vesunna, built round a garden courtyard surrounded by a colonnaded peristyle enriched with bold tectonic frescoing, has been handsomely protected in a modern glass-and-steel structure that is a fine example of archaeological museum-making (see link).
Lyon, the capital of Roman Gaul, is now the site of a Museum of Gallo-Roman Civilization (rue Céberg), associated with the remains of the theater and odeon of Roman Lugdunum.
The "Claudius Tablet" in the Museum transcribes a speech given before the Senate by the Emperor Claudius in 48, in which he requests the right for the heads of the Gallic nations to participate in Roman magistracy.
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