ETRURIA CAPTA. 235 



found in a tomb about two miles from Perusia, although the subject 

 of the epitaph was a native of Sena : 



TOMB OP SARAPIKUKA. 



1. FEBEN • SVOI • BINOIV • OVEM • SIANM • EYFE • OAVDE i« 



agin uhieka nobemau ulukamaube mapineno nourakano nekuegin marapitune 

 agin Alinka nabe mai Alaukama obe Ampineno nau rakone naiku egin 

 mara epaten 



offered Dominion by extended tablet Lucumo lord Ampineno he me does 

 approach desiring to make monument to fix 



2. LAVYNEMCLE • CADESDI • AVLEM • LAPIAL • /IDECVOVDAMI i« 



sarapikukane nochisane chiratunenotuu rapisaneno saratuurasa batunechipi 



mabeturanou 



Sarapikuka ne aintzitzen jardiin natiu arrapatzen no zarratu an eritzu batu 



inyubi ambe Turanoi 



Sarapikuka to to present pay attention they me do taking of writing this 



honours army beloved great Tyrrhenia to 



1*1 Tomb of Sarapikuka. 



Line 1. agin Alinka: agin is the verb, to promise, command, offer, which forms aginza, 

 offering. For Alinka, see CipBUR of Perusia, Front, line 24. 



nabe mai : nabe is here an adjective, extended, great. 



Alaukama obe: for Alaukama see Cippus, Front, line 14; for obe see Oippus, Left Side, 

 17-20. The whole is equivalent to "the lord Lucumo," who is not in this case the subject of the 

 inscription. 

 . Ampineno or Mabineno, the name of the Lucumo. 



nau rakono : the common pronominal auxiliary nau indicates that the postposition rako 

 with the increment no has become a verb, meining "he towards, or approaches me." 



naiku egin : for naiku see Cippus, Front, line 14. FE may be agin, command, as well as 

 egin, make. 



mara, epiten : for mara see Cippus, Prunt, line 11. The foUovving VDE I read as the Basque 

 epaten, fix a limit. If mara represent the modern marra, the two words will mean "to set a 

 mark." 



1*2 Line 2. Sarapikuka ne aintzitzen : Sarapikuka, the name of the deceased general, in the 

 dative to ne. The verb ainzindu, to go before, seems in Etruscan to have assumed an infini- 

 tive form aintzitzen, meaning to present, combining praesum and praesento. 



jardun natiu : the common Etruscan verb CA, chira, zira, more fully CADE, chiratune, zira- 

 tune, I have already referred to several times. It means " to pay attention to," and thus con- 

 nects witli the modern jar, attention. I am not aware that jardun, which generally means 

 " to be occupied," ever conveys such a notion, yet as corresponding in form I have taken it to 

 represent chiratune, which stands in this place for " compliment, do honor." 



The auxiliary is the plural of nau in Etruscan, which in Basque is naute. As in Basque 

 nuen makes in the plural nituen, so in Etruscan nau made natiu. 



arrapatzen no : in Etruscan erpetzen no, of taking. 



zarratu au eritza: the construction is not clear. One would expect the infinitive eritzi 

 rather than the indicative eritza. The demonstrative au, hau, this, must stand for the per- 

 sonal pronoun. 



batuinyubi : in the Eugubine Tables batu is one of the commonest words and iinmistakably 

 denotes " an army." It is not found in Basque, but pampots, brave, farfatzea, stril^e, bota. 



