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sisting of habe father and aurre fore. The Basque word for fore- 

 fathers, ancestors, is aurrehoak, but baheaurre is not a modern Basque 

 word. 



38. LAPOI • SEIANYI ■ 8PAVNISA ■ AYIV • / IVYE • M 

 zaratumai noneurakakuu loturapikauiiare rakuupi bahipikune no 

 zarratu mai non orogogoi Loturapika au andre Arkoibe bahi bakan no 

 written table where remembers Lotarapika his wife Arkoibe consort 

 only behold 



I hrive already directerl attention to bahi, a pledge or engagement 

 as an Etruscan term for wife or consort. It is here followed by 

 bakan, bakhan, only, which the Eugubine Tables represent by the 

 same form inkune'-" Its use may indicate that the Etruscans were 

 usually })oiygamists. The final no is a particle meaning "tiens!'' 

 hold ! here ! take it ! look ! when addressed to a woman ; when 

 addressed to a man, it is to. 



36. AYVSNEI • CA8AYES 



arkupino kanio chiralaraguneno 



Argubena ganio jarri alargun no 



Argubena it concerns attention widower of 



It concerns Argnbena, the gift of her widower^^ 



Already jarri has been before us. it means attention, as in 

 jarramon or ja?' ernan, give attention. The modern Basque word for 

 widow is alarijun, and thei'e is no other cerm to denote widower. 

 The statement of Lanzi that this is a woman's epitaph necessitates 

 the reading of the latter. 



114. FEL • YIYEM • FESIM • ApNOIAL 



aginza knukuneno aginoi no artukamo urasa 



aginza Koigune no Aginoi no artu goniu hau eritza 



offering Koigune of Aginoi of memorial this esteems 



The memorial of Koigune : this memorial of Aginoi esteems 



163. AVLA • OVS/EDIENA 



arpisara chipi nobane tuunekara 

 Arpisari cliipi nebia n dio nigar 

 Arpisari little Ijrother to she him does weep 

 Arpisari weeps for her younger brother^^ 



87 The present, Basque word for only is hikar. Now, bakan, hakhan, bekhan means " rare." 

 Japanese agrees with Basque m hakari. The Choctaw has beka, probably the root form. 



98 Fabretti rejilaces final S with M, but without tluis affecting the sense. In a note on this 

 inscription Lanzi mentions the presence of LA.POI, so far I'ead Larthi, and held to denote "a 

 prince," in inscriptions accompanied by portraits of women. 



98 lu 163 I read Arpisari as a feminine name, for the following reason : In most of the Khitan 

 languages not only was a distinction drawn originally between elder and younger brother and 



