238 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



3. mVPlNAMIE • FALYAOI • AISEPAS • IN ■ ECS • IHENE '*« 

 mipituukaranoune agersakuramau raunoneturano uka necViino minekane 

 agerri askor mai irion ne Turano uka ni che no imini 



kian 



manifesting joy tablet send to Tyrrhenia refusing I self 



of place did 



4. mLA.OCEmAPNI • YVOI • YIV • Ximom • CAOIALOI i« 

 misaramachinemiratukau Kupimau kuupi goumimami chiramaurasamau 

 misa erama zein miratu kio Kupimai koi bu Goumimami jar mai eritza mai 

 monument to bring which show does Kupima to desire has Goumimami 

 attention tablet esteem tablet 



5. AO • mAPIML • niENIYLA • AFPS • CI • ALAO • Iimom ^^° 

 rama miratuunosa minekaukusara raagtuno chiu rasarama goumimami 

 erama miratu au aintza men zahako zari irago du no sei urte erama 

 Goumimami 



to bring to show this predecessor power besides chief pass does until 6 

 years to bear Goumimami 



alin egi Jca, literally, by doing sovereig-nty, that is, in exercising authority. 



irago atso Ician Jcasa miraka : kian, he did, belongs to irago. The final mira-ka means 

 '•^by beholding," but probably forms an idiom with the untranslated kasa, signifying ''rarely 

 seen." 



148 Line 3. mipituukaranoune : the first part of the group is plainly imbe, send, or it may be 

 inibetu. If imbe, then tuii is dio, he to him does. The sentence is obscure owing to the uncer- 

 tainty of the last characters and the blanks I have been compelled to leave in the preceding 

 line. 



agerri askor mai : here also Y is doubtful. Also I question the propriety of reading LYA, 

 askora which now means, joyous, but can suggest no better reading. 



iraun ne Turaan uka : iraun means to continue, preserve, extend. The true equivalent 

 of AIS is probably irion, to send. The uka following Turaan is the verb, to refuse. 



ni che no imini kian; I of myself did place. Here imini means decide. 



1*3 Line 4. ')nisa erama zein miratu kio : misa is a new word, unknown in Basque, but con- 

 necting probably with mra like the Japanese mise, an exhibition. It is a common word in 

 the Lycian inscriptions, constituting the first part of the words hitherto read mete, mene, and 

 translating the Greek mnema. The verb miratu has here the meaning to show. Kapimai 

 is in the dative. 



koi bu : Etruscan be, as I have alreadj' sufficiently indicated, is the equivalent of Basque du- 

 The preceding koi now means desirous, but here forms a verb with &e = he desires. 



jar mai eritza mai : tablet of attention, tablet of esteem. See line 2. 



150 Line 5. erama, in infinitive to koi bu. 



miratu au, aintza : the sense is not clear. I read aintza as predecessor, from aintzindu, 

 precede. It may be a synonym of eritza. If it means predecessor, the dative sign is omitted. 



men zahako zari : this also I give with hesitation. After )nen, power or authoritj', comes 

 kahako and then zari, a chief. The Japanese hoka means other, besides, outside, answering 

 perfectly to the Basque zahako, outre. I suppose therefore that this is the only way in which 

 the Etruscan indicated a colleague, namely as " another lord of authority." 



irago du no : the Etruscan had the auxiliary du as well as be, but I have not yet discovered 

 any rule for their respective employment. The final no I regard as the postpositive until, 

 (Lecluse, Manuel, 112). 



