The Structure of the Liber Linteus

Krall (Bibl. [1]) organized the 11 written bandages of the mummy into 6 stripes (the fifth was clearly missing) as on the following picture. Note that the unlabelled pages are not written, and the ones marked by dotted lines are missing. The so called "new" fragment was not yet discovered, this should be inserted into the top stripe in Column II.

The structure of the Liber Linteus (Bibl. [1]).  

The stripes got their names after the most significant piece of bandage contained in them, so they are called (in order from top to bottom) 4, 2, 1, 5 and 3.

Stripe 4: maximal length 303.5 cm, average height 5 cm, composed of 12 fragments, from which 10 are adjacent, 2 are 3cm apart from each other at position of Column IV, and one (the so called "new" or Herbig fragment) is apart 7.5 cm from the rest at position of Column II. Text is preserved from the end of Column II till Column XII. The closing edge, without text, is preserved in full.

Stripe 2: maximal length 269 cm, average height 5.5 cm, composed from 2 adjacent fragments. Text is preserved from Column IV till XII. The closing edge, without text, is preserved in full.

Stripe 1: maximal length 302.5 cm, average height 6 cm, composed of 4 adjacent fragments. Text is preserved  from Column II till XII. The closing edge, without text, is preserved in full.

Stripe 5: maximal length 319.5 cm, average height 6 cm, composed of 11 fragments, from which 9 are adjacent.Text is preserved from the closing part of Column I till Column XI. The closing edge, without text, is preserved till some 11 cm from the closing fringe.

Stripe 3 (or "fragment g"): maximal length 153.8 cm, average height 5.5 cm, composed of 5 adjacent fragments. Text is preserved from Column VIII till XI. The closing edge, without text, is preserved in full (Bibl. [2]).

The bandages close to the right edge are more frayed and torn than the rest, so there is an opinion, that they have been damaged already in ancient times, probably as a consequence of long usage and of being the top page of the book.

 Bibliography: [1] Prof. J. Krall: Die etruskischen Mumienbinden des Agramer National-Museums (mit 10 Lichtdrucktafeln und 1 Abbildung im Texte). Denkschriften der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-historische Classe, 41 Band III, Wien, 1892. (pp.29-30)
[2] ©A. Soric, A.Rendic-Miocevic et al: Katalog Pisati etruscanski, Muzej MTM Zagreb, 1986.

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