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12. CLENOVNXVLOE128 

 chisanekamabe kago pisamane 

 zazu neke ambe gogo Pisa eman 



have you inability great mind Pisa to give 



13. 8ALAM • lIEmSVMLE • FELOINAi^s 

 larasarano gounemialpenosane aginsamaukara 

 iiirrez rano goye ni imi albo nas ne aginza mai ekarri 



grave towards word I place side together to offering tablet to bring 



14. BINOACALEmVNICLEYmASVWo 

 ukikamaerchirasanemipi kanchisanekumiranobe 



al auka ema eritsi ra esan imbe kio zazu naiku mira nabe 



Lucumo honour to saying send he does have you desire admiration to 



extend 



adjectif, partieule queleonque, peut se ponvertir en verbe en ajoutant toea on cea, selonque le 

 mot est termiue par una voyelle on par une consonne ; examples : 

 hai, oui baitcea, afflrmer 



aita, p6re aitatcea, devanir pera 



Thus nabusi makes nabusitcea ; but the final a, representing the article, has no place in 

 Etruscan. It is better to adliere to one mode of orthography; therefore I take the itz of Van 

 Eys lather than the itce of Lecluse. 



lanesa, now langUle: see note on line 9 for sa as the Etruscan termination denoting an 

 agent. 



hitz zarratu mara asan Ralapika nen : hitz, word, is governed by zarratu which is in the 

 infinitive to nabusitze. The common sepulchral iiiarakara, maragogo is reduced to mara, a 

 monument. In asan I find an abbreviation of asantsi in line 10. The postposition should fol- 

 low mara, but is carried to the end of tlie clause and follows Ralapika. This postposition 

 neno in Etruscan seems like a couibination of ne to, and no, of. It answers to the naino of 

 ganaino. In the Eugubine Tables it is found after names of places as in arten banion Arretiag 

 neno, and thus appears to mean "into." 



128 Line 12. zazu neke ambe gogo Pisa eman : zazu, in Etruscan zezu, 2 pi. imperat. of dut. 

 With neke it may read " fail ye," or " have ye inability." The only point of grammar to note 

 is the absence of the postiiositinn ne after Pisa. This detached passage, perhaps a quotation, 

 seems metrical, a dissyllabic hexameter, so that poetic license may account for the missing ne. 



"9 Line 13. lurrez rano : lur still makes lurrezko as well as lurreko, of the earth, terrestrial ; 

 but here lurrez is employed as a synonym of obi, the grave. 



goye ni imi; goye in Lecluse is conversation. In Japanese it is kojo, a verbal message. The 

 following ni is the pronoun I, which accompanies the verb imini, to place, in an Etruscan 

 form identical with the root, but which may, by a trifling change of the second vowel, have 

 represented the 1 sing. pres. ind. without auxiliary. 



albo nas ne : albo nas, see line 4 ; ne is the postposition to used as infinitive sign. 



130 Line 14. Alaiika ema: the translation is literally "power choice given," probably mean- 

 ing "the elected potentate." In Basque, choice is aula or aukera: in Etruscan it seems to 

 have been auka. This is the Lucumo of the Roman writers. The groups which I read alka- 

 mane in the Hittite Inscriptions, Hamath I. II. and which I translated "I the powerful," may 

 represent this ancient title of authority. The Lucumo is Ralapika. 



eritsi ra ; infinitive. 



esan imbe kio ; esan is the present participle, which is really the radical part of the Basque 

 verb. See Max .\l tiller. Science of Language, 2nd Series, Lecture I.; also Lecluse, Manuel de 

 la Langue Basque, p. 63, for the analogy of the English "I am saying, I do say" with the 



