182 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 
I do not pretend to have interpreted this tablet, which presents 
technicalities yet in advance of my knowledge. The first line is, 
‘however, clear, for mopi and nora are on the dice, and mopira or 
mopila appears in an inscription denoting age.” The line reads 
I have taken the liberty of suggesting different readings of the following characters: Right 
half, line 12, instead of FEOYFIF, I read FEOYEIC; in line 11, VYACF, I read LYACE. Also 
in left half, line 12, the third character from the end is in the original a diamond bisected 
horizontally. Comparing this with the second group in the following line, I make it equivalent 
to8. In line 13, I read the last character of the second group as E insteod of F; and the last 
character in the line, which in the original is like a Greek lambda, I read as E. 
To give a complete commentary upon this text would swell the notes beyond due limits. 
The following is a translation, in general I think accurate, but in some points tentative. 
Right half. 
1. Behold, the offering regards Nopibakai. 
2. Behold Nopibakai, the engraved tablet regards this father. 
3. Behold Nopibakai, the commander, it suitably honours. 
4. Behold Nopibakai, the son of Sinhetzi. 
5. See I have brought an offering to do homage to Lanesanobe. 
6. Behold I have brought an offering, desiring to do attention (and) praise. 
7. Behold Artu Noka brings his father homage. 
8. See, instead of an engraved tablet, the little daughter offers ; 
9. Sinhetzi, who desires the regard of the father, brings her plaything. 
10. See, instead of an engraved tablet, (she) gives the abitchra. 
11. To the little one who desires the father to do ‘‘ four-three.” 
12-13. The salutation of this writing. The desire of the little daughter who commanded to 
give us the plaything. 
Left half. 
1. If anyone to forbid showing the contribution of the little daughter pre- 
2. -fers; the engraved two- 
3 (mopi-sara) -three Artu did place. 
4. To the father does honour 
5. The three-two contribution of the little daughter. 
6. Behold her father she did inform : 
. ‘See I have brought an offering 
8. To the grave, this engraved two (mopi).” 
9, Did this give praise? To do honour (to) the tablet she desires to place to us. 
10. See Artu, did place 
11. A promise of showing Sinhetzi’s offering. 
12. Who offers to the tablet, as he is able to undertake 
13. So great a contribution he presents. To the extent of her ability 
she places (gives) who tenders her engraved two (mopi). 
The ‘‘ engraved two or mopi” refers to the plaything of which the first line reads “‘ mopi 
nora mopira.” In right half, line 5, occurs Lanesa-nobe, which, for the present, I cannot ex- 
plain. The first part Zanesu is the Etruscan for workman, the equivalent of the Basque langille, 
Nobe or nabe means far, wide, and as a verb combines the meanings étendre and éloigner. It 
may be aname for Hercules, the deity of Etruscan soldiers, such as Nopibakai. In line 10 
abitchra must be the technical naine of the little multiplication table offered by the child, who 
bears her grandmother's name. The word alegia in lines 12 and 13 of the left half I read not as 
the modern alegia, but as alegin. 
The attention of prosodists should be called to the rhyming Etruscan of the ‘‘mopi nora 
mopira,” and of the “ bei bere bipi ben” of note 38, 
55 See page 183. Lauzi, vol. IIT., Tav. xi., No. 6. 
