ETRURIA CAPTA. Wie al) 
marakara, maragogo. The present word for stone is arri, but that 
there was an older form mara or marri is evidenced by the words, 
malkar, a stony place, murrua and harmora,a wall. The kar or 
kara is the verb ekarri, to bear or carry. In the runic Pictish 
Fabretti 958. THANIA 
SVDERNIA * AR’: F 
TA SADNAL 
kukarakaura 
nobetunetakaura arte egi 
kura noratukarasa 
Basque. egoki rako harri 
Nobetu Antaka aur artu egi 
gur Noratu sortze 
concerns offering stone. 
Nobetu Antaka’s son—hold ! do 
reverence ; Noratu natus. 
T have rendered artu as an interjection, like the French tiens. Reverence is gwr in Basque. 
Fabretti, 288. TAHIA * SVDERNIA « SADNAL 
kurakaura nobetunetakaura noratukarasa 
Basque: gureki harri Nobetu Antaka aur Noratu sortze 
reverential stone Nobetu Antaka’s child Noratu natus 
In the inscription A and H are blended. The reading given is inadmissible on grammatical 
grounds. I suppose, therefore, that the first word is really an abbreviation of egoki rako harri, 
which will make perfect sense. 
Fabretti, 1985. THANA SEICIA : TRE®V 
kukarakara noneuchiura kuta ne ma be 
Basque: egoki rakora non Otseherri Guda ne ema bu 
concerns offering what Otseherri Guda to give does 
Non now means ‘‘ where,” but in Etruscan the numerous instances of its use claim for it also 
the meaning of the relative. The Japanese has no relative pronoun. The Iroquois uses ne, 
nene, the demonstratives, as relatives, and has also the forms ftsint, tsina, tsin, answering to the 
Basque zein. The Choctaw has among its relatives ing, ang, ona, and that of the Aztec is yn. 
The following are some of the terins or formulas hitherto read as proper names, against all 
probability, save on the supposition that the Etruscans excelled all other peoples in poverty of 
nomenclature : : 
OANA read Thana, but as marakara, meaning monument 
THANA ‘ Thana, “  egoki rakora, . the offering concerns 
ADNY <t Arnt, “  artu gogo, se to keep in mind 
ADNO **  Arnth,  artu gomu, ce id. 
ADNOAL “ Arnthal, ‘* artu gomu eritsa, “ the memorial honours 
LADOIL «  Larthi, **  zaratu mai, £6 the written tablet 
LADIS <)anis; “  zaratu huno, se this writing 
FEL s)  Hele agintza, re offering 
FELIA s* Felia,  agintza oar, s consider the offering 
AVLE S Aule; *  arbe zuen, vg ye who take (heed) 
I have just received from Mr. VanderSmissen the following inscriptions, which seem to favour 
the present school of Etruscology : 
Fabretti, 984, bisd. LARTHIA * MARINA * CAINAI ° FILIA 
If this be a Latin reading of Etruscan names, and the jilia certainly looks like it, Larthia is 
one such name, and represents LAPOIA. The Larthis, Larthias and Thanas of Etruria must 
