ETRURIA CAPTA. 175 
20. ZEOPA * 8VLNEI 
Translit.—no ne mo tura‘alpi sa ka ne u 
Basque—non Matura alabichi ganio 
Translat.—where Matura’s daughter is regarded 
or, which Matura’s daughter concerns*® 
The first two words need no explanation. In modern Basque 
alaba is daughter and alabichi, god-daughter ; but as the Etruscans 
were certainly ignorant of Christian rites, which arose long after 
their language was lost, the latter may originally have meant little 
daughter. In kanio or ganio we have, I think, an instance of the 
well-known power of the Euskarian to verbalize any part of speech, 
for kan or gan is the postposition towards. There is a modern verb 
ganatcea, to attract towards one, of which the root is this kan. We 
cannot say in English “it towards him,” but that is the meaning of 
kanio, which may be rendered ‘concerns or relates to.” The final 
‘310. (A)V ‘ CEICNA : SELCIA -C / - P 
| arpe Sinhetzkara non sotze aur Chiba du 
a it holds Sinhetzkara whom regards child Chiba he has 
313. A * CAECINA : SELCIA - ANNOS - XII 
The Etruscan inscriptions are written from right to left; the Latin in the ordinary way. 
How can the accurdance between these three pairs of inscriptions be accvunted for? Many 
Etruscan inscriptions in apparently Roman letters are really Etruscan, and the characters must 
be read with Etruscan values. But such is not the case with the three under consideration. It 
is true we have not the originals of the Latin epitaphs, and there is some variation in the 
forms of annos in the different editions of Lanzi and in Fabretti. Nevertheless the formula 
vix. an, sufficiently denotes a Latin inscription, and even if read in Etruscan yields no sense. 
Also the Q of 312 is not Etruscan, and neither Caspo in it nor Tlaboni in 311 can be read as 
Etrusean clauses. It is worthy of note that 309 accompanies the representation of a male 
figure, and its correspondent 311 a female figure. The names Caspo, Tlaboni, Seleia, have no 
connection with known Etruscan names nor with anything in the Latin language. The charac- 
ters CAS A occur in Lanzi, 165, 166, and CA is one of the commonest combinations of charac- 
ters in Etruscan. I do not know another instance of YLA /VNI or Tlaboni. The word 
SELCIA I read non sotze awr. Its first word non is of common occurrence, and stands alone 
in Lanzi, 143, 144. It appears frequently in SENYI non gogoi, where in memory, as in Lanzi, 
286, 293, 332, 407, and in the fuller SEIANYI non orogogi, where in remembrance, as in Lanzi, 
423, but I do not remember meeting elsewhere with the complete SELCIA. If these words, 
together with Caecina, be renderings in Latin of Etruscan names by one who understood the 
Etruscan language, the contents of this paper are valuéless, and Etruscan must retire once 
more to its abode of impenetrable mystery. That they are such I do not believe, but I do not 
profess to explain how they came into existence. Progress, on the basis of these correspon- 
dences, should, if they are genuine, be easy, but the reverse is the case. They furnish an 
entirely new, unrelated and uncouth language, adding little or no knowledge of the Etruscans 
beyond a number of questionable proper names. JI do uot ask to have these correspondences 
set aside, but invite the student to suspend judgment upon their merits until he has weighed 
the evidence in favour of the new syllabary. If that be found wanting, these correspondences 
will be strong witnesses against it ; if, on the other hand, it stands the test, they will be con- 
demned as the misleading work of ignorance or something else. 
40 Instead of SVLNEL Fabretti reads SVLVNBLI albi azpi ganio. The word azpi, literally 
under, may mean younger or youngest. 
