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INSCRIPTION VI. 



This also reads horizontally from left to right ; it is of no historical 

 importance. 



be ha tu de be 



BeJiatii debe 

 to look forbid 



" It is forbidden to look." 



INSCRIPTION VII. 

 It follows the order of Nos. II. and III. 



All Arbema aita Arbeina. 

 This Arbema father Arbema. 



" Arbema, the father of this Arbema." 



The name of father and son may be Arpinio, "the first in front. 

 Hittite names generally descend from grandfather to grandson. 



INSCRIPTION VIII. 

 It reads like No. VII. 



Arbe esats asina Tab era ema. 

 Arbe spoken indication Tabera gives. 



"Tabera gives a sign of speech to Arbe." 



M. O'Shea's No. XVII. mentions Tabera, whose name, 

 accompanied by the figure of a turtle, suggests the modern Basque 

 chaberania, the turtle or tortoise, and the Iroquois anowara. He is 

 made the father of three chiefs, Ola, Mamaye, and Machi. Ola's son 

 was Temane; his, Maneta ; and Maneta's Olaochita or Ahaluste, in 



