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" Kama thus suitably shews regard to Mama." 



The name Mama has already appeared in No. II., an inscription not 

 of Hierro, but of Canaria, where it is combined with that of Goma, a 

 word not unlike Kama or Gama. Canaria is a considerable distance 

 from Hierro, but the multitude of its inscriptions, as compared with 

 other islands, suggests that Hierro may have been chosen by the Iberic 

 aborigines as their place of sepulture, and thus that the Mama and 

 Gama of this inscription are the Mama and Goma of No. II. 



INSCRIPTION XIX. 

 Read in the same way : 



a! 

 sai ma 



Temara Denia Masai al eiiia. 

 Temara tribute Masa-to power gives. 



" The tribute of Temara gives sovereignty to Masa." 



The name of Masa does not occur elsewhere, unless it be in- M. 

 O'Shea's XXII., in which the Roman Lamia is called a Masa, Basque 

 inesu, Jiiezu, envoy. Instead of Masa as a proper name, one might read 

 iiiezui " to the envoy " or Lamia, which would relegate the inscription to 

 the early days of the Roman empire. Temara has already found 

 mention in No. XI., as the tributary of Mama, lord of Sibara. Temara 

 may be zaviari, the horse, or zamar, the crab. In Japanese temari is a 

 hand-ball. 



INSCRIPTION XX. 

 Reads like the preceding, but has lacunae or partial defacements : 



Mai anoma beha au bite * » * * ;y^/;^. ,^^ Beberabe no ranono 

 Beberabe zari Goma beka. 



Tablet contributed regards this envoy * * * * rabe of Beberabe 

 of towards Beberabe commander Goma chief. 



