Iguvium

Iguvium, modern Gubbio, is an ancient city of the Umbrians secluded high in the Appenine mountains. Its defensive position in the mountains makes it an ideal site to store hostages. It is most famous in modern days for the Iguvine Tablets, a series of seven tablets inscribed in the Umbrian language with religious texts describing the rites of the Atiedian Brethren. The Iguvine Tablets are notable not only as the largest surviving text of not only Umbrian but of any Sabellic language, but as the only document of an ancient Mediterranean religion to be found in a near-complete state.