Are there any texts that survive which lay out the augur's

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cum

>>3199616
you stare at birds and make shit up

>>3199616
>>3199620
Pretty much sums up this entire board

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>The best liver readers in Roman times were Etruscan, those mysterious people who lived north of Rome in an area that people today know as Tuscany. Long before the Etruscans, the Babylonians were expert liver readers. And the Assyrians and Sumerians. A lot of ancient folks were into liver reading. Roman liver readers wore pointy hats and fancy robes and went to school for a long time. To help them master the nuances of reading a sheep’s liver they created training aids like the bronze Piacenza Liver (shown above) which was found in a farmers field near the village of Piacenza in Italy in the 1870s. The Etruscans divided the liver into 16 different parts that corresponded to the Roman Zodiac to help determine which gods in which part of the cosmos were sending messages. The Emperor Claudius, an Etruscan aficionado, actually founded a liver reading university to train Etruscan wannabe haruspices.