192 PROCEEDINGS OP THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



jardun, to be occupied, jario, to do. The old verb rakojarri may 

 be represented by tbe modern jarhi, jarkitu, to incline, lean, 

 bend. What I have translated act of sympathy should be rather 

 act of homage or worship. It is somewhat strange to find three 

 postj)Ositions of the same meaning, towards, in one short inscription, 

 rako as a noun, gem as a verb, a.nd rano in its legitimate employ. 

 Certainly the goddess was well "towarded." 



Still anothei- tablet refening to this goddess combines the votive 

 with the sepulchral. 



35. OANA • YVPJVNIA • CAYMLINIS "A (of a womaii)68 

 marakara kupido Ichpeka ura Siraku ainza uka huno ara 

 marakara Ciipid Istapeko aur Siraku ainza uga huno ara 

 monument Cupid Venus son (to) Siraku presents mother his, beliold 

 A memorial, to the son of Venus, Cupid, Siraku presents his mother, 

 behold. 



Ichp'eka, as the mother of Cupid, must be the Basque Istapeko, 

 one of the few mythological names the Euskarians have retained.^* 

 There should be a postposition after aur, aurra. It is probably 

 omitted to avoid the repetition of ra, which would be the postposition 

 understood. The only woitI calling for comment is ainza. This I 

 take to be a third sing. pres. indie, of aintzi, now ainzindu or 

 aitzindu, to present, come before. The Etruscan almost universally 

 gives shorter forms of verbs than the Basque ; examples, imi, place, 

 ema, give, for imini and eman. 



58 This is given as corrected by Pabretti. 



69 It is but just to the memory of the Etruscans to say that the Cupid who figures so largely 

 in their monuments was originally a very different person from the Greek Eros. The Indian 

 Kings of Canouge, known as the Guptas, bore this ancient and honourable name, for Gupta, 

 which appears on many Lats in Mathoura and elsewhere in northern India, is an oriental 

 Cupid. These monuments are Khitan, as I have indicated. In mythology he is lapetus rather 

 than Eros, the son of Uranus, the grandson of Acmon, who, according to tradition (Steph_ 

 Byzant. s. v. Acmouia), founded Acmonia in Phrygia, and was a Scytliian. In history he is 

 Aahpeti, the Apophis of the Greeks, the greatest of the Hyksos or Hittite Pharaohs of Egypt. 

 Coming to the throne as a child, he was afterwards associated with infancy. He left his name 

 to the Cappadocians, recognized by Professor Sayce as a Hittite people. The fabulous history 

 of Persia, as preserved by Mirkliond and Firdusi, strange to say, recognizes him as a king of 

 Iran and all other lands, under the name Kai Kobad, mentioning his greatness, his virtue, his 

 reign of a hundred years, and conversion to the Hebrew faith. In the Hebrew Scriptures he 

 is called Jabez, or better, Igabets, the son of Zobebah, and grandson of Cuz, who is set forth 

 in I. Chronicles, iv., 9, 10, as a convert to the faith of Israel. See my article on Jabez in 

 British and Foreign Evangelical Review, April, 1S70. He was an ancestor of whom the most 

 favoured nations of the earth might be proud. 



