ETRURIA CAPTA. ; 265 
in Etr. sema, denotes a son, and au, this, appears to have possessive 
value, his son. His name Agizen or Agizene may relate to agilz, 
vigorous. The B. entzwn, to hear, obey, is entw, entwn in Etr., and 
is of common occurrence in the Eugubine Tables. The other words, 
uko and ema, have already occurred. I regard Q as the equivalent 
of O with a perpendicular line from the base, employed as M, just as 
O with a dot in the centre is in Celtiberian. The verb ranone ap- 
pears in the Eug. Tab. with the meaning, surrender, come to, take 
part with. It is a verbal form of rano, the postposition ‘“ towards.” 
F. 726. SASYI : YLESNEI - LAYINIAL 
CENOCVNIA 
The upper line, written from right to left, is found upon the lid 
of an urn, and the lower, as given, upon the urn itself. 
laranokuu * kusanenokaneu ° sarakuukaurasa 
chinekachipikaura 
lurreno koya Kusaneno ganio Saraku uga au eritsa 
zen Kachipika aur 
earthen receptacle Kusaneno concerns Saraku mother his esteems 
late Kachipika’s child, 
A. 41, Tav. IT., is the inscription on a cup: 
MIVNEI : AM 
The first character is not M, but one repeating the upper angle of 
this letter, and wanting the final perpendicular. I find it with I, 
taking the place of OI, maz, in Lanzi, Saggio, No. 322: 
MIADNO mai artu gomu 
No, 323. MILAPVM mai zarratu pino 
I therefore read the inscription : 
mai Pikaneu rano 
inscription Pikaneu towards 
The most interesting of these inscriptions from a philological point 
of ‘view is the first (4. F. 3, No. 105). The Etr. and B, ilar, which 
translates the Latin faba, is the root of ilargi, the B. word for the 
moon. The connection may have arisen out of the shape of the bean, 
or from a belief in the fable reported by Pliny (H. N. XVIIL., 30), 
that the bean is the only grain that swells with the waxing moon. 
In the Hittite and Aztec hieroglyphic systems the bean has a place. 
