Ancient Mediterranean Lingual 'Incongruity'A Pelasgian stele on Lemnos proves anomalous only as a survival of Pelasgian writing, not as Etruscan-related in the Aegean before Classical Greek eradication of the Luvian-speaking remnant of Mycenaean culture. Etruscan tombs in Italy retained Mycenaean-style frescoes. Romans, whom urbane Etruscans largely civilized while ruling, retained much of Mycenaean-Etruscan culture, including sarcophagi and other funerary practices, purple-bordering of magistrates, horsemanship, political organization, soothsaying, lanterns, cisterns, taverns, and legends of a migration via Carthage after the fall of Troy.
Cyclone Covey
Not sure if it was used earlier than that, but it was the Etruscans that introduced it to Roman architecture..
The second post about the Etruscans was much more informative and interesting to me than a explication of parts of speech such as glottal stops which are understandable only by linguistic professors.