Salon.com > Lynda Barry http://www.salon.com Wed, 22 May 2013 16:31:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Fiction: Sympathy for the Mummy http://www.salon.com/2011/10/31/fiction_sympathy_for_the_mummy/ http://www.salon.com/2011/10/31/fiction_sympathy_for_the_mummy/#comments Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:26:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=10159735 It’s the mid-1800s, and a Croatian guy goes to Egypt on vacation and buys a mummy as a souvenir. So you can already tell what kind of guy he is. The mummy turns out to be wrapped in strips made from a book handwritten on linen in Etruscan, a language that died out 2,000 years ago.

It’s known as "Liber Linteus." It’s the longest Etruscan text ever found. It seems to be a ritual calendar of some sort, but no one really knows what it says. No one has spoken Etruscan for 20 centuries. Only a few fragments have been translated, like this one:

For the spirit of night, for the city, for the people everlasting.

You can see the "Liber Linteus" on display in a glass case in Zegreb. And quite near to it, you can also see that certain someone. You can see the unwrapped mummy that was once inside of it.

How was this treasure of Etruscan writing found? It sounds like something that happened in a frat house. The Croatian guy takes the Egyptian mummy home. He props it up in the corner. He shows it off to his friends when they come over. They make jokes about it. They rattle their drinks and point their cigars at it.

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