202 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITU'l'E. 



The word ukan, ukhan is Basque, having the double meaning of 

 have and be. 



90. AV • OFENLE • HIEOL • NAL 



rapi ceginekasune Minemosa karasa (sortze) 

 behold Cecina-kasune Minemosa natus 



For rcqoi see inscription Lanzi, Vol. II., p. 421, No. XI. 



91. LADOI • CFEXLE • HIEOLNA 

 zarratu mai Cegine-kasune Minemosa kara 



This is virtually the same legend as the preceding, and seems to 

 show that the Cecinnas married into a family of Minimas. It lacks 

 the final L of sortze. 



93. LA • CFENLE ■ OA 

 zari Cigine kasune mara 

 commander Cecina-kasune Mura 



The first word, which occurs frequently in the Eugubine Tables 

 to denote a general, commander of an army, is the Basque zari, gen- 

 erally compounded with agin, command, or hum, head, aginzari, 

 huruzari, chef, commandant. I do not think that OA here denotes 

 a memorial in the genitive of position to Cecina-kasune, but the 

 name Muraena borne by three of the Licinii who fought in the ser- 

 vice of Rome. 



95. LADO • CFENLE zarratu mai Cecina-kasune 



/A /I A barabara 



The last word may be huruhuru, meaning great chief, as hum 

 denotes a commander or chief as well as a head. I know of no verb 

 that would complete a sentence of this form except 2Jara, to place or 

 piesent. The inscription reads zarratu mai, the written tablet 

 Cecinna-kasune parapara; making it apjDear that zarratu mai is the 

 nominative, Gecinna the accusative of parapara. If we were told 

 that a portrait of Cecinna adorned the tablet, I should read huru 

 para, presents the head. As it is, it must for the time remain a 

 mystery. This will be no hardship, as all its companion inscriptions 

 have been such for probably eighteen centuries. 



If Lanzi manufactured his inscription out of this he must have been a very dishonest man, 

 although he has g-enerallj^ been regarded in a totally different light. The thing is incredible. 

 This is no complete inscription, but a fragment. However, Fabretti is right in reading mEOL, 

 instead of mEOI, as the following inscriptions 90 and 91 testify. Instead of ukan we must 

 read kane, makes. As for chinesaka or zein so ka, who look by, freely, "who or which by the 

 sight," although such forms do occur |,on Khitan monuments, it is obviously out of place here. 



