182 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



I do not pretend to have interpi-eted this tablet, which presents 

 technicalities yet in advance of my knowledge. The first line is, 

 however, clear, for mopi and nora are on the dice, and mopira or 

 mopila appears in an inscription denoting age.^^ The line reads 



I have taken the hberty of sug-gesting different readhigs of the following characters : Right 

 half, line 12, instead of PEOYFIF, I read FEOYEIC ; in line 11, VYACF, I read LYACE. Also 

 in left half, line 12, the third character from the end is in the original a diamond bisected 

 horizontally. Comparing this with the second group in the following line, I make it equivalent 

 to 8. In line 13, I read the last character of the second group as E insteod of F ; and the last 

 character in the line, which in the original is like a Greek lambda, I read as E. 



To give a complete commentary upon this text would swell the notes beyond due limits. 

 The following Is a translation, in general I think accurate, but in some points tentative. 



Right half. 



1. Behold, the offering regards Nopibakai. 



2. Behold Nopibakai, the engraved tablet regards this father. 



3. Behold Nopibakai, the commander, it suitably honours. 



4. Behold Nopibakai, the son of Sinhetzi. 



5. See I have brought an offering to do homag-e to Lanesanobe. 



6. Behold I have brought an offering, desiring to do attention (and) praise. 



7. Behold Artu Noka brings his father homage. 



8. See, instead of an eng'raved tablet, the little daughter offers ; 



9. Sinhetzi, who desires the regard of the father, brings her plaything. 



10. See, instead of an engraved tablet, (she) gives the abitchra. 



11. To the little one «'ho desires the father to do "four-three." 



12-13. The salutation of this writing. The desire of the little daughter who commanded to 

 give us the plaj'thing. 



Left half. 



1. If anyone to forbid showing the contribution of the little daughter pre- 



2. -fers ; the eng'raved two- 



3. (mopi-sara) -three Artu did place. 



4. To the father does honour 



5. The three-two contribution of the little daughter. 



6. Behold her father she did inform : 



7. " See I have broug'ht an offering 



8. To the grave, this engraved two (mopi)." 



9. Did this give praise? To do liouour (to) the tablet she desires to place to us. 



10. See Artu, did place 



11. A promise of shciwing Sinhetzi's offering. 



12. Who offers to tlie tablet, as he is able to undertake 



13. So great a contrib\ition he presents. To the extent of her ability 

 she places (gives) who tenders her engriived two (mopi). 



The " engraved Dwo or Jrtopi" refers to the plaything of which the first line reads " mopi 

 nora mopird." In right half, line 5, occurs Lauesa-nobe, which, for the present. I cannot ex- 

 plain. The first part laiicsa is the Etruscan for workman, the equivalent of the Basque langille, 

 Kobe or nabe means far, wide, and as a verb combines the meanings etendre and eloigner. It 

 may be a name for Hercules, the deity of Etruscan soldiers, such as Nopibakai. In line 10 

 abitchra must be the technical name of the little multiplication table offered by the child, who 

 bears her grandmother's name. The word aleyia in lines 12 and la of the left half I read not as 

 the modern alegia, but as alegin. 



The attention of prosodists should be called to tlie rhyming Etruscan of the "mopi nora 

 mopira," and of the " bei here bipi beu " of note 38. 



'5 See page 183. Lauzi, vol. III., Tav. xi.. No. 6. 



