GREEK AXD ETSUSCAX LETTERS. 



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museums, the reader will be able to judge for himself, and 

 probably see how much more closely the earlier runes re- 

 semble the Greek archaic and Etruscan inscriptions than the 

 Latin ones. 



Q 



Fig. 32o. Bronze tablet, first three lines. Treaty between the Eleans and Hermans 

 of Arcadia; copied from "Ancient Greek Inscriptions" in the British Museum. 



(Eupborbos.) 



(Menelaos.) (Hector.) 



Fig. 326. These three archaic inscriptions are found on a vase from Camirus in 

 Rhodes, now in the British Museum. 



Fig. 327. Etruscan inscription on a sepulchral urn in the British Museum. 



Fig. 328. Etruscan inscription on an urn in the British Museum. 



Fig. 329. Etruscan inscription on a sarcophagus from Toscane;la, in the 



British Museum. 



