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INSCRIPTION XXV. 



o go 



le be 



ro arpe 



ka 



Olero jabe A rpekatei. 

 Olero lord Arpekate to. 



" To Arpekate, lord of Olero." 



Olero or Oloro invites comparison with Oleron or Oloron in the 

 Lower Pyrenees. Arpekate is, perhaps, a verbal form of erpeka, a 

 stroke of the claws, meaning " to claw." 



INSCRIPTION XXVI. 



Also, with one variation, perpendicular : 



o 



sa ai 



ma i ta 



ar i 



be al 



beri 



Osa niai A rbe aitai A Iberri. 



Pays-attention tablet Arbe father to Alberri. 



"The tablet honours Alberri, the father of Arbe." 



Arbe appears in No. VIII., as one of the oldest of the kinglets of 

 Hierro. Alberri, his father, furnishes a still higher antiquity. The 

 name may mean as it stands "new authority." It is not at all like))- to 

 be alfer, lazy, alabere, similarly, etc., but it might easily be elbarri, the 

 crippled, lame, ilbej^j'i, the new moon, or libera, the waning moon. 



