ETRURIA CAPTA. yg 
Ww 
Ww 
provisionally to Karasu’s. mother is Egi-Aterbe, which means 
“ making shelter.” Van Eys defines atherbe, atharbe as “lieu pour 
étre 4 l’abri de la pluie ; par extension, maison, .toit.” It is derived 
from athari, the Basque equivalent for the Latinized Etruscan 
atrium. The Greek pastas, 2 kind of porch, may be the translation 
out of which the scribe evolved Bassa. A difficulty in the way of 
the reading given is that R is rendered in one case tu, and in the 
other at, which is an inconsistency very unlikely to take place. 
Could we find the Etruscan word given by the Romans as atriwm, 
it would decide the value of one of the ¢ syllables. This and similar 
arrivals at the exactitude desired will require time and codperation, 
just as they were required in the case of Egyptian, Assyrian, and 
other decipherments. 
LARGER TEXTS. 
In Fabretti, Table XXX VIIT. No. 1914, appears the Cippus of 
Perusia. The front and left side of this monument are covered with 
Etruscan characters. As those on the left side furnish the key to 
the narrative, and are uninjured, I present them first. As the lines 
are very short I give them in groups of four. 
Left Side of Cippus. 
1-4, FELOINAM : AYENATVCIENESCI -IAAM AELANE! 
aginsa maukarano rakunekara ichpichiu nekanenochiu ubara- 
nobanesarakane 
aginga mai ekarri no aragune kara ichpichio nekian nochiu obi rano 
banaiz eragin 
offering tablet bringing of accordant states contribution I did request 
grave towards I am causing to make 
111 Cippus of Perusia, Left side: 
Lines 1-4. aginza, Van Eys agintza, offering: in genitive of position to maz. mai, table, 
here used, like the Japanese mez, to denote tablet, inscription. ekarri, to bring, in Etruscan 
probably kara; the participial form governed in the genitive by the postposition no. 
no or na, the Etruscan postposition of. Iu modern Basque no or na is reduced to x or en, 
The Japanese genitive particles na and ga answer to the Etruscan no and go, the Basque en and 
go, and the [roquois ne and ke, which are also locative. The Choctaw genitive in belongs to 
the same series. 
ara gune kara, For kara see kakara, Front of Cippus, lines 1 and 5. The meaning of 
kakara, of which kara is an abbreviation, is plainly a state. It is not modern Basque, but 
may answer to the Japanese kori, a division of a country, or province. It is possible that the 
Basque herri, erri, a country, is a descendant of kara. The preceding gune is literally a place, 
but forms compounds like on-gune, bon accord. Here it is preceded by ara, more fully arau, 
right. In modern Basque arau makes ar-alde, ar-aldetu. So here, ar-gune, accordant or 
conformable, indicating the states which conformed to the terms of the Tuscan confederacy. 
ichpichio : the commoner word is ichpi, which in Basque means “ petit morceau dun corps 
dur,’ and is a synonyin of pikor. The Basque irhpicho, derived from ichpi, means ‘‘ pari, 
