The Placenza Liver, Model of a sheep's liver inscribed with the names of Etruscan gods, 100 B.C.
 
 
 
Reconstruction of a divination ceremony. The drawing, elaborating ancient portrayals, reconstructs a scene in which the haruspex, in a ritual pose and with special closing, interprets an animal liver before an attentive audience, conscious of the solemnity of the ceremony.
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