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5. A. 401, Tav. VI. Zat—AR: TRIIBI - HISTRO 
Etr.— AO : YPEAI * OANA : SA 
rama kutunebau marakara anre 
erama Kutunebai Marakara andre 
it bears Kutunebai Marakara’s wife 
_ What the sculptor meant by Kutunebai as Triibis I cannot 
imagine. The Etr. kuéwne answers generally to the Basque ekiten, 
to undertake ; hence baha ekiten would mean to undertake a pledge, 
or to engage oneself. The name Marakara is identical in form with 
the term commonly designating a memorial. Here, however, it 
translates Histro, itself an Etruscan word. The B. arrokeria means 
boasting, romancing, rodomontade ; marraka, which seems to connect 
with it, means any strange noise, such as mewing, bellowing, bleat- 
ing. The element mara appears, a little altered in form, in churt- 
muri, zurumuru, a vague rumour, the final mwrw denoting the noise 
or sound. The modern B. word for the poet or improviser is kobla- 
kari, kobla being a Provengal term meaning strophe or stanza. He 
is thus a stanza-bearer; and the mara, marra or murukari must 
have been the bearer of strange or inflated sounds, the actor. 
8, A. 719, Tav. VIII. Zat.—L * SCARPVS : SCARPIAE : L: TVcIPA 
Etr—LAPNO « SCAPAP --LAVYNI 
In the Etr. the AP of SCAPAP are peculiar in form, the A 
being rounded at the top and the P having a lower horizontal limb, 
making it appear like a combination of P and L. Also final YNI 
are indistinct. 
zaratu kama * nochiratubatu * sarapikukau 
zarratu gomu no jarri du Batu Sarapi egokio 
written memorial which present does Batu Sarapi concerns 
The name Scarpus is the Basque Sarapi, probably pronounced 
Sharpi. That most unclassical word Tucipa translates Batu, the 
common Etr. word for an army, which I have already shewn the re- 
lation of to the Jap. butsu, to fight and bushi, a soldier. It must, 
therefore, be a barbarous derivation from the Greek teuchea, answer- 
ing to tewchophoros, an armed man. : 
9. A. 774, Tav. IX., is on a seal. The first line, supposed to be 
Latin, is, in the original, written from right to left: the second, 
from left to right. The initial letter of the first line is obscure, and 
so are the two in the second, which I have treated as Y or T. 
