192 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 
jardun, to be occupied, jario, to do. The old verb rakgjurri may 
be represented by the modern jarki, jarkitu, to incline, lean, 
bend. What I have translated act of sympathy should be rather: 
act of homage or worship. It is somewhat strange to find three 
postpositions of the same meaning, towards, in one short inscription, 
rako a8 a noun, gan as a verb, and rano in its legitimate employ. 
Certainly the goddess was well “ towarded.” 
Still another tablet referring to this goddess combines the votive 
with the sepulchral. 
35. OANA » YVPTVNIA : CAYMLINIS - A (of a woman)® 
marakara kupido Ichpeka ura Siraku ainza uka huno ara 
marakara Cupid Istapeko aur Siraku ainza uga huno ara 
monument Cupid Venus son (to) Siraku presents mother his, behold 
A memorial, to the son of Venus, Cupid, Siraku presents his mother, 
behold. 
Ichpeka, as the mother of Cupid, must be the Basque Istapeko, 
one of the few mythological names the Euskarians have retained.” 
There should be a postposition after aur, aurra. It is probably 
omitted to avoid the repetition of ra, which would be the postposition 
understood. The only word calling for comment is ainza. This I 
take to be a third sing. pres. indic. of aintzi, now ainzindw or 
aitzindu, to present, come before. The Etruscan almost universally 
gives shorter forms of verbs than the Basque; examples, imi, place, 
ema, give, for mint and eman. 
68 This is given as corrected by Fabretti. 
69 It is but just to the memory of the Etruscans to say that the Cupid who figures so largely 
in their monuments was originally a very different person from the Greek Eros. The Indian 
Kings of Canouge, known as the Guptas, bore this ancient and honourable name, for Gupta, 
which appears on many Lats in Mathoura and elsewhere in northern India, is an oriental 
Cupid. These monuments are Khitan, as I have indicated. In mythology he is Iapetus rather 
than Eros, the son of Uranus, the grandson of Acmon, who, according to tradition (Steph, 
Byzant. s. v. Acmonia), founded Acmonia in Phrygia, and was a Scythian. In history he is 
Aahpeti, the Apophis of the Greeks, the greatest of the Hyksos or Hittite Pharaohs of Egypt. 
Coming to the throne as a child, he was afterwards associated with infancy. He left his name 
to the Cappadocians, recognized by Professor Sayce as a Hittite people. The fabulous history 
of Persia, as preserved by Mirkhond and Firdusi, strange to say, recognizes him as a king of 
Iran and all other lands, under the name Kai Kobad, mentioning his greatness, his virtue, his 
reign of a hundred years, and conversion to the Hebrew faith. In the Hebrew Serptures he 
is called Jabez, or better, Igabets, the son of Zobebah, and grandson of Coz, who is set forth 
in I. Chronicles, iv., 9, 10, as a convert to the faith of Israel. See my article on Jabez in 
British and Foreign Evangelical Review, April, 1870. He was an ancestor of whom the most 
favoured nations of the earth might be proud. 
