ETRURIA CARTA. 201 



I have indicated a doubt as to the reading of Egihatzurano. The 

 word zuea, as far as form is concerned, might be the 3rd person 

 sing, imperfect indicative of dut, meaning he had. But here it is 

 plainly the personal pronoun zu with the relative particle en, ye who. 

 In zarapi we have, I think, a variant form of zarratu, answering to 

 the modern zarrapo. Of course it might, if the first reading is the 

 ti'ue one, be Servius, the son of Egihatz. The last word is good 

 Basque of to-day, egohio, il importe. 



The inscription that follows seems to refer the reader to another : 



316. 01 • LOTIS • SEPYVPVS • LAPYNAYA 



mai asmakii uno none tukupitupino zaratukukarakura 

 mai asmaku hune non adiko bethe banu zarratu egoki irakurri 

 table traced this where explained fully I have writing capable read 

 Let him who is capable read the writing of the inscribed table in which 

 I have given particulars. 



Here a distinction is well drawn between writing and reading. 

 The Etruscan adiko is a derivative from adi, understanding, know- 

 ledge, which makes adigarri, signification. The word bethe means 

 full in Basque. Besides the meaning '■'importer, concern," egoki also 

 denotes d propos, capable. It may of coarse mean in this place 

 '■' whom it concerns."^''* 



I have ah'eady in 96 given a tablet of the Cecinna family, which 

 name I have roughly read Chiginekasune. Boman writers call it 

 Caecina. Sisenna is doubtless the same word. Whether Kasune is 

 the nomen or cognomen I am not in a position to judge. If it 

 answei's to Zuntzegin, as an abbreviation and inversion of that 

 name, it will be the nomen, for we learn that the Caecina whose 

 case Cicero advocated belonged to the Licinian gens, and Zuntzegin 

 we have found was the Etruscan form of Licinius. The following 

 are other monuments of this familia. They were found at Monte 

 Aperto of Siena • 



89. OANA • MEOINE . marakara Minenio ukane (ukan) 



CFENLESA Cegine kasune anre 



memorial Minima has Cecina-kasune's wife^^ 



87a Tuku may be a proper name as it is in a similar inscription : Bilingual, Fabretti 934. In 

 this case pitu, betu will be the Etruscan form of epatu, to fix, set to. See Tomb of Sarapikuka, 

 line 1. 



88 The iconoclastic Fabretti with a rude hand destroys the Cecinna memorial in 89. Here is 

 his reading : 



OANA • mEOLNE CELN 

 marakara minemosakane chinesaka 



