249 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 
CLOSE TRANSLATION OF THE LEADKEN TABLET OF MAGLIANO. 
Front. 
To Heaven first I, Goumimami, render thanks for Lord Kupima passing the 
age of 80. The tablet of regard to give honour ——- in the exercise of 
authority he passed an age rarely seen. ——-——— Tyrrhenia refusing to send 
a tablet expressing gratulation, I of myself resolved to bring a monument 
which shows shat Goumimami has the desire to provide a tablet of regard, a 
tablet of honour to set forth his predecessor. Until he passes six years having 
Goumimami as colleague, by which union to myself he passes a quiet old age, 
the lord Kupima exercises authority alone forty years. He commands the 
envoy to give me the power of receiving entire authority. 
Reverse. 
I myself requested the codrdinate cities to help towards bringing the 
memorial. Little does he care for attaining so great an age. To pay regard 
to the compassion of Heaven I gave Lord Kupima this offering. By behold- 
ing, it will inform him who placed a suitable I published abroad his 
goodness, his goodness to us. I inform the lord, the envoy of Tyrrhenia, that 
he who presents towards the memorial, acknowledging the age, gives us an 
indication of the compassion of God. giving of the com- 
passion, he honours me by joining me to show gratitude. 
I conclude this paper with a transliteration of the groups of char- 
acters contained in the Augurial Templum of Piacenza to which 
allusion has been made on page 222. This I do in the hope that 
scholars possessing a better knowledge of Basque and of the subjects 
likely to be set forth in such a Templum than I possess may be able 
to shed hight upon it. The Templum consists of a number of com- 
5 . . . . 
partments indicated by a double series of numbers as follows : 
ANIONE rakau makane ? raka = argi, light. 
VNIQAD  pikan baratu  pikoya burdax, end of the plough 
YEO FO kunemaagba See 13’ gune ema agba, place gives —— 
LEON sanemaka See 9 
EKO nema 
CAO chirama zeru ema 
: 
ook we 
as the verbal termination—tze-tzen, just as artw appears in—artze-artzen. To gain the heart 
isin Basque goga-tu, goga-tze ; in Choctaw it is chukush-eshih. Thus on-etsi originally meant 
to hold good, and gaitz-etsi, to hold bad, and etsi is but another form of atchiki, to hold. Also 
er-itsi may be derived from ara, rule, right, proportion, fitness, with the original signification 
to hold aright or fitly. It is only by careful and full comparison of words and constructions in 
the different Khitan languages that the radicals can be detected and a scientific system of 
etymology be made to take the place of conjecture. 
