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circle above the base giving it the appearance of a tripod. I suppose 
it, therefore, to be composed of LL and Y and to represent gogo. 
mara * Aginkau - Sara 
no di gogotu ra 
memorial Aginkai Sorano from to remember 
Here again a proper name is separated by the lines. The inscrip- 
tion was found between Bolsena, the ancient Vulsinii, and Sorano, 
which is not mentioned by the classical geographers. The postposi- 
tion di or dik from, by, after, out of, is well represented by II, the 
first element in debe. 
ZORA DALT POs cr eree vito: CINAE : B 
TOV Mh en te bole CyAIViIRIC 
TK ON uehig hes AM ~ COIFCE 
AG Noi ota tote EREITO . QVES 
JVAME 
I do not think it possible to make Latin of the right or perfect 
side. Of the mutilated left, asma, asma, erama, ra, give no con- 
nected sense. The right reads in Etruscan : 
chiukarane * ahal 
chi * upituuchi - 
rano * chimauagchine 
netuneukuma - mipineno 
chipiranone 
I read Q as mi and the inverted C as if it were not inverted : 
Chiukarane * al Chiukarane * poten- 
tzu * obeto hitz - -tate - best word ° 
rano ., seme au Agizen towards * son Agizen 
entun uko ema * imbe nion to obey refusal giving * send I him did 
chipi ranone the youth to reconcile 
Chiukarane is evidently the name of a place. It can hardly de- 
note Clusium, where the bronze plate containing the inscription was 
found. The following alchi, altsi, analogous in form to the B. altsu, 
powerful, [ suppose to be an Etr. noun, the power-holder or poten- 
tate, governing Chiukarane in the genitive of position. Literally 
obeto ‘hitz rano means “ towards the better word.” It is probably a 
polite acknowledgment, answering to the hackneyed “your es- 
teemed favour” of the English letter-writer. The following seme, 
