hepatoscopy , auch: hepatomancy

Compared to Israel, they used the methods listed above except, hepatoscopy.

Plato notes that hepatoscopy held greater prestige than augury by means of birds.

There's an entire chapter about "hepatoscopy," or divining the future by inspection of sheep livers.

Concrete extant sources for knowledge of hepatoscopy is models of divined livers.

The Babylonians were famous for hepatoscopy.

The reading of omens specifically from the liver is also known by the Greek term hepatoscopy (also hepatomancy).

"Hepatoscopy took years of study," Mr. Aveni says.

In a close general election, however, the ancient art of hepatoscopy would be about as useful as modern opinion polls at divining the identity of the winner.

It also manages to discuss the history of the art of divination done by examining freshly slaughtered livers (hepatoscopy), just one among many, mostly amusing, digressions.

In ancient Mesopotamian religion, a practitioner of a form of divination based on hepatoscopy, reading of omens from a liver of a sacrificial animal.

The liver is subdivided into sections for the purposes of performing haruspicy (hepatoscopy); the sections are inscribed with names of individual Etruscan deities.

The Romans, in classical times, used Etruscan methods of augury such as hepatoscopy (actually a form of extispicy) (for example, Haruspices examined the livers of sacrificed animals).