igoo-i.] Spanish Documents Relativk to the Canary Islands. 77 



" The contributed tablet regards this envoy (bitezar) * * * * (a 

 tribute) towards Beberabe : the commander Beberabe, chief of Goma." 



This imperfect inscription seems to relate to a miHtary man and an 

 envoy, so that, instead of, "the chief of Goma" standing in apposition 

 to him, the words may denote the giver of the tablet. The writer 

 knows of no Basque or Etruscan name or word like Beberabe, but as 

 Bibi-rube, it is just what an Etruscan document would turn the Latin 

 Vibius Rufus or Rufinus into. There was a C. Vibius Rufinus in the 

 Roman consulate 22 A.D., to whose famil}' the supposed bitezar or 

 envoy may have belonged, although his date would suit the time of one 

 at least of the Lamias. 



INSCRIPTION XXI. 



go 

 ma 

 be 

 ka 



Gojiia heka. 

 Goma chief. 



"The chief of Goma." 



Unfortunately, the name of the chief is lost. 



INSCRIPTION XXII. 



be 



te 



Udaberri al eina osa atherbe obi ate edate: udahate avibera belieitu 

 debe mopira mopira ardizain be. 



Spring power gives overseer shelter cave door extend : summer 

 more than lower forbids eight eight shepherd under. 



"In spring, the overseer gives authority to open the door of the 

 cave shelter : in summer he forbids to lower (into it) more than eight 

 (times) eight, under a shepherd." 



