Pyrgi Tablets

Location:  Pyrgi, Italy

Description:  The Pyrgi Tablets were found in ancient Pyrgi, Italy (modern day Santa Severa).  According to J.T. Hooker, “Shorter, but very important because of their historical implications and because they provide us with the closest thing to a bilingual inscription, are the texts inscribed on the three gold tablets found at Pyrgi, the harbour of Caere (Cerveteri), (Because of their great value they are kept in a bank vault in Rome. …)  Two are in Etruscan, one in Phoenician.  A fourth tablet, in bronze and fragmentary, also had an Etruscan inscription … The tables date from about 500 BC.” [31]  These plate artifacts provide additional proof that ancient accounts were engraved on plates of precious metals, as was the Book of Mormon record.