ETRURIA CAPTA. 



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:m. LAP0A8VNEISE0PESA 



zaratuma ralapi kanio none matune nare 

 zarratu mai Ralapi ganio non eniaten andre 

 written table Ralapi concerns which gives wife.i"' 



The verb ematune may be ematen, tlie simple attributive form of 

 the verb eman give, or ema duen, give she did, now eman zuen. 

 Much study and careful comj)arison of texts will be required to 

 settle the differences between the Etruscan and the modern Basque 

 in matters of grammar and phonetics. 



ADDITIONAL BILINGUALS. 



The following bilinguals and larger texts I owe to the kindness 

 of Mr. VanderSmissen, who has collected them out of Fabretti and 

 other sources not at present accessible to me, for the purpose of 

 subjecting the syllabary to every reasonable test. 



The following is given by Lanzi (Vol. II., p. 565, No. 8) but in a 

 very imperfect shape. 



Fabretti 69, PI. VI. F • ATIVS • L • F ■ STE • HARVSPE 

 FVLGVRIATOIl 

 C • A8AYES LP • LP ■ HEYMFIS • YPVYNFY • 8PBNYAC 



Tlie point between the initial C and the following A is not part of 

 the text. The E's and F's are archaic in form, but are, I think, 

 correctly rendered as such by Lanzi. The M of the fourth gi-oup 

 may be m. The V of the fifth group is indistinct in Fabretti, but 

 Lanzi i^ecognized it as siich. The chai'acter I have given as B is of 

 the same form above as 8, but the lower half is open. As a variant 

 of 8 I represent it by the nearest, indeed by the only, variant con- 

 tained in the syllabary I read the Etruscan : 



chiral iragiineno astu astu ganekunoagiuno kutupikukaagiku latuul kakurachi 

 jar alargun no azti azti ganako no egiuii kutubiku ka eg'iku Altahola gogo eritsi 

 attention widow of diviner diviner sacrifice of indicator lightning by indicator 

 Altahola memory to honour 



I am not aware of any present Basque word for sacrifice. The 

 term ganako now means towards, and used substantively may have 



'07 Fabretti modifies 347 : 



LAPOA8VNE • S^IUPESV 



zaratu ma ralapi kaue none matuiienare 



zarratu mai Ralaiii kane non ema duen andre 



written tablet Ralapi makes which give he does wile 

 The sense is far from clear. I may add that the final E of the first group is uncertain in 

 Fabretti. 



