ETRURIA CAPTA. 239 



6. AFILSX • EGA • CE/lEf^ • YVOIV • OVl • liVYEFP • BESNI isi 

 raagusanogo nechira chinebaneka kupimaupi mapigo ugopikuneagit 

 ulnenokau 



irago atso nagi ni che ra zein bane ka Kupima obe mopigo ogoi bakan egit 

 alin no kio 



passes age idle myself to who joining by Kupima lord twice 20 alone 

 exercise authority of does. 



7. mVLFENI • EO • YVCI • Am • APS ^^^ 

 mipisa agin kau nema kupichiu rami artuno 

 imbesa agin kio ne ema jabetzio artu no 



messenger command he does me to give to rule receiving of 



Reverse. 

 1. niLAOAN • CALVSO • ECNIA • AFIL • mimENICAC^^s 



misaramaraka chiraspinochi nechikaura raagusa miuminekauchirachi 



misa erama rako jarritza banuche anzeko hiri irago atso imini kio 



jarritze 



monument bringing towards request I did self like cities passing age 



little place he does attention. 



cMu arsa erama, or in Basque sei urte deranna, six years to bear. The subject is Kupima ; 

 the double object, Gouminiami and inen zahako zari, in apposition. 



'51 Line 6. irago atso nagi : I read SX nogo as the Basque nagi, idle, but in the g-ood sense of 

 the Japanese nagu, Choctaw nukchito, calm, quiet. The verb must be in the 3 sing. pres. ind. 

 without sign. 



ni che ra zein baneka : zein is the subject of irago, the rest being an adverbial clause. One 

 would expect to find Goumimami speaking of Kupima joining the younger man to himself in 

 authority. On the contrar.y, he saj's : "who, bj' uniting to myself, passes a quiet old age." 

 In bane we have the shorter form of banetii, Basque batu, followed by the postijosition ka. 



mojngo ogoi bakan egit alin no kio : mopigo is the Etruscan twice, from mopi, two. The final 

 go answers the purpose of the Basque eta)i. In bekune we have alreadj' found the Etruscan 

 equivalent of the Basque bakar and Jajjanese bakari. The verb egin becomes egit as in egiteri, 

 and finds its auxiliary at the end of the sentence. Also, differently from the alin egi ka of line 

 2, alin takes the postposition no, of. 



152 Line 7. imbesa agin kio : imbesa is formed like lanesa and zekesa of the Cippus. It 

 means, a messenger, and is probably the original of the. word embassy. Here the word may 

 denote an officer of the Confederacy : see Reverse, line 3. There is no distinction in Etruscan 

 between egin and agin, both of which are represented by FE. The context determines that the 

 verb here is agin. 



ni ema jabetzio rami artu no : instead of ni one would expect no, as eman governs the dative. 

 The word jabetzio is a form of jabetu, to rule or command. It is in form like ichpichio of the 

 Cippus. The following rami is an enigma. The same characters Attl in the Eugubine Tables 

 frequently' give the Etruscan equivalent of the Basque irrin, division, showing that the Basque 

 here as elsewhere has changed final m to n. The sense of the passage rather favours the idea 

 that, having shared the authority for six years, Goumimami was now to rule alone. In one of 

 the bilingual Lycian insci-iptions I find ramira, translated bj' the Greek panta. This would 

 connect it with arrunt, rather than with irrin. The Basque arrunt means commonly, but 

 also "all vvithout exception," and thus answers to the Japanese aremashi, in the main, generally. 

 The verb artu is in the genitive to etna. 



153 Reverse : 



Line 1. misa erama rako : for misa, see Front, line 4. 



