Vetis

Vetis is known from the Etruscan sky-map and from what the Romans made of him. His name stands on the outer rim of the Liver of Piacenza, and it is the name behind Roman Vejovis, whose rare forms Veive and Vedius preserve it almost unchanged. He is generally described as a god of vendetta, chthonic rather than celestial. He is ingested here partly because the Roman god corroborates the liver reading: most of the sixteen abbreviated theonyms on that object are contested, and a name resting on the liver alone would not meet this registry's bar.

Variant accounts

• The liver theonyms are abbreviated and mostly disputed.The sixteen names on the outer rim of the Piacenza liver are abbreviated and worn, and consensus on individual readings exists only in a minority of cases. Vetisl is one of the better-supported readings because the Latin Vejovis gives it independent corroboration. The record is ingested on that basis and would not have been on the liver alone.Reference discussion of the Liver of Piacenza noting that the theonyms are abbreviated and the readings disputed. (secondary)

Domains

• vengeance
• underworld

Sources

• Vetis is an Etruscan god named on the Liver of Piacenza, understood as a god of vendetta and chthonic in character, and taken as the source of the Roman Vejovis (rare forms Veive, Vedius).: Liver of Piacenza (2nd-1st c. BCE), Museo Civico, Piacenza. (archaeological); Reference article 'Vejovis', on the Etruscan origin of the god and on Vetis on the liver. (secondary)