ETRURIA OAPTA. 229 



8. ES0IE/ILYVLAPV12* 

 nenochiu neb asakupisaratube 

 -an nochiu nabusi jabe sari tobe 



did request master lord rewarding instead of 



9. AVLEMI • FELOINAMAPiNALCLi^s 

 rapisanenou aginsamai karano artu ichkarasachisa 

 arrapatzen nau aginza mai ekarri no artu itchekiri so chitsu 



accuse me he does offering table bringing of to receive adherents 

 regard precedence. 



10. ENMI • on • OILMCVNA • CENV ■ E i^e 

 nekanou mata mausanochipikara chinekabe ne 

 neke nau emat mai asantsipikor zein gabe na- 



fail he me does to give tablet to erect contribution which without 



11. /LC • 8ELICLAPOALMA8VNEM 1" 

 basachi lanesauchisaratumarasanoralapikanen o 

 -busitze lanesa hitzzarratu mara asan Ralapika nen 



command workman word to write monument erected Ralapika to 



12* Line 8. nabusi jabe sari tobe : nabusi, in Etruscan nehusa, is an old Khi'tan word for 

 master. It occurs in the long Phrygian inscription in Texier's " Asie Mineure," T. II., p. 157, 

 the first group in which is not Kelokes, as it has been read, but utzi nabusi utzi nion, " lost 

 master, T have lost him." It appears also in the llittite inscriptions, Hamath I., II., IV. in the 

 group I incorrectly read t« basanesa sara, which should be nabusinesa zari. Another Basque 

 form of nabusi is nausi, answering to the Japanese nushi, master. The conjunction "and" is 

 omitted between nabusi and jabe, which present the Japanese order. The word sari is 

 employed as a participle, meaning "honouring" rather than "rewarding." It now means 

 reward, and saristatu is to reward. The adverbial postposition tobe, instead of, governs sari. 



125 Line 9. arrapatzen nau, in Etruscan probably arpetzen : arrapatzen means literally to 

 seize, but here signifies to accuse. A somewhat analogous case is iratcheki, meaning " attacher, 

 joindre," but which in iratchekitzen nau signifies "il m'en veut." 



artu itchekiri so chitsu: the verb artu, to take, receive, is one of the commonest occurrence 

 in the Eugubine Tables. With itchekiri compare the attributive itcherik in line 4. The Etrus- 

 can equivalent for the Basque gale, ille, gille is sa, as in lanesa, workman, zekesa, niggard. This 

 leads me to ask if the word m this group be not itchekirisa, he who adheres, an adherent, that 

 is, to the Ci infederacy, rather than itchekiri so, the regard of the adherents? The final chitsu I 

 read as precedence, from chitcea, preceder, a word of Lecluse. 



126 Line 10. neke nau, he fails me ; neke is not the same word as noku in line 4, although they 

 agree in signilication. It is the Basque neke, travail, peine, nekezi, disette, nekatu, se fatiguer, 

 the original meaning of which seems to have been privation, failure. 



emat; the form Oil appears in the Eugubine Table I. a , lines 21, 25, and elsewhere, but 

 with auxiliaries. Here it is an iutinitive, governed by the preceding verb. 



mai asantsi pikor, in Etruscan pikara : asantsi I find in Lecluse as asantatcea, magonner, 

 asantua, mur, muraille. The as must be aitz, a rock, used instead of harri, stone. This aitz 

 is the Japanese ishi, a stone. In pikor or pikara we have a synonym of ichpi. 



zein gabe, without which, namely, the pikor or contribution. 



ne belongs to next line. 



127 Line 11. nabusitze : the pronoun ni is wanting, probably because nabusitze, really nebu- 

 satze, begins with E. As Lecluse says (p. 103) : "Tout mot basque, nom, pronom, substantif, 



