abstract:Tinia (also Tin, Tinh, Tins or Tina) was the god of the sky and the highest god in Etruscan mythology, equivalent to the Roman Jupiter and the Greek Zeus.de Grummond, Etruscan Myth, Sacred History and Legend, page 53 He was the husband of Thalna or Uni and the father of Hercle.
As evidence, they cite the inscription on the beast's right foreleg, which translates as "for Tinia, " who sat at the top of the Etruscan pantheon, the equivalent of Zeus and Jupiter.