220 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



Fabretti 1888. L • F • TIITIA • GNATA 

 MIISIA • ARVN 



AP • mESI • 



The last line is written in the oi'iginal from right to left, and thus 

 it is supposed to be the only Etruscan part of the insciiption. But 

 the Etruscans and all the Khitan wrote frequently from left to right, 

 and bousti-ophedon, as in this case. MIISIA • ARYN" is not like 

 part of a Latin inscription. I read it as Etruscan. 



nota no ura artupika 



artu mine nou 



Nata no anr Artupika 



artu min nau 



Nata of child Artupika 



receive grief she me does (she receives my grief) 



Nata is the Gnata of the Latin, which is here a pi'oper name, 

 and not the participle of nascor. Artupika represents Tiitia. This 

 peculiar name can only connect with Taeda, pitch-pine, a pitch-pine 

 torch. In bilingual, Fabretti 69, piku has appeared as the Etruscan 

 form of hiz in hiztu, to light. Here, however, we have not piku but 

 pika, doubtless a different word. The iii'st part of the word is 

 probably arte, a tree, rather than ardai, tinder. The second part, 

 pika, some Basque scholar may be able to explain. 



Fabretti 980. Q • SENTIVS • L • F • ARRIA - KATVS 

 CVINYF ■ M^NV • APNYNAL 

 chipi u ka kuagi no ma gabe artu kaku karasa 

 Sipi uga Kuagi une mai gabe artu gogo sortze 

 Sipi's mother Kuagi this table without holds memory child 



Here I have taken a license in making M, which in the original 

 has an imperfect second limb, thus giving prominence to the tirst, 

 the equivalent of une. I am not sure that the bisected is mai. 

 It may be 7na, which elsewhere, following zarratu, is unmistakably 

 the same as viai. The word Sentius I take to have the same mean- 

 ing as Sentia in Lanzi's bilingual 2, that is, thorn-bush, brier, 

 bramble. It is here translated by Chipi or Sepe, not a modern 

 word. The Basque zapar, sapar, means bush, brier, bramble, and is 



violated grammatical construction by placing the verb nochitie or aintzin before Ager for this 



end. I read 



asma aintzin Ager Noraku sortze 



indication to present Ager Noraku natus 

 In this way Ager is the original of the Basque ezkcr, left. 



