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is the modern name of Iguvium. It has been maintained that 

 those Tablets which were made, as Co icioli asserts, ex aere 

 purissimo, were originally nine in nnuiber. Two of the Tablets 

 which were conveyed to Venice in 1540, have, it is to be feared, 

 been irrecoverably lost. The seven that remain are preserved in the 

 Palazzo Mnnicipale of Gubbio. Tablets I., II., V. and VI. are 

 engraved on both sides. A blank space is left on one side of Tablet 

 II. and V. A few lines merely are engraved on one side cf Tablet 

 VII. The Inscriptions on Tablets VI. and VII. and nearly all the 

 Inscriptions on one side of Tablet V. are in Roman letters. 

 According to the compntation of Anfrecht and Kirchofl' : 



Table VI., a, has 59 lines. 



Table VI., 6, has G5 lines. 



Table VII., a, has 54 lines. 



Table VII., b, has 4 lines. 



Table v., b, has 11 lines. 

 There are thus 193 lines in the Umbi-ian portion of the Eugnbine 

 Tables. 



In his preface to his Les I'ables Eugubines, Professor Breal gives 

 an interesting account of the various eftbrts which have been inade 

 to inter])ret those Tables. It is noteworthy, from a Celtic point of 

 view, that there appeared in 1772 a work by Stanislas Bardetti, in 

 which lie endeavoured to explain the Umbrian Inscriptions princi- 

 pally by the aid of Anglo-Saxon, old High German and Celtic. In 

 an article on the Eugnbine Tables which occurs in the Encyclopaedia 

 Britannica, it is stated among other things that " Anfrecht and Kirch • 

 hoff. summing up the labovirs of their predecessors and working 

 according to strict scientific method, bi'ought the intei'pretation of the 

 Tables to a degree of perfection that could hardly have been hoped 

 for, though there still remained in matters of detail sufficient scope 

 for such investigators as Breal, Ebel, Corssen, etc." Professor 

 Br^al's Les Tables Eugubines was published in 1875. As, in addition 

 to his own unambiguous asseverations, he has come to be regaixled 

 as having at last succeeded in giving an intelligible and satisfactory 

 solution of the Umbrian Inscriptions, it is advisable to insei-t here 

 the conclusions at which he has arrived. " The Eugnbine Tables 

 are the acts of a Corporation of priests who had their seats at 

 Iguvium, and whose authority ap))e'ars to have extended over a some- 



