Liver of Piacenza

Crude model of the Liver of Piacenza, an Etruscan model of a sheep’s liver cast in bronze found in a field near Piacenza, Italy roughly dated to 100BCE for use by oracles in the practice of hepatoscopy.

There are multiple deviations from the actual bronze. 

In ancient times when a total eclipse occurred people were terrified because they did not know what happened. Therefore they consulted an oracle and the oracle killed two sheep and used a tool such as this model to examine the livers of the sheep to gain an understanding of the eclipse.

This pseudo-science belongs in the same category as palm reading, tarot cards, astrology, and the like. 

The X and Y sizes of this model are close. The Z ratio has significant distortions but overall should be close. The characters are 90% there.