ETRURIA CAPXA. 241 



mLAJ. • ILAIE • YINS • LVPSO • YEF i^e 



misarago usaragone kuukano sapitunoma kuneag 



misa rako atso rakone goijaun kupida no ema gune ag- 



monument towards age acknowledging high lord compassion of gives 



us to 



AVFI0VNi5^ 

 rapiagumapika 

 -erri Begiaumabeka 

 manifestation 



6. LVDSOSAL '^s 

 sapitunomanorasa 

 kupida no ema no eritza 

 compassion of giving me he honours 



7. ESDS • NAG '"^ 

 nelatuno karachi 

 ni lotu no ikheretsi 



me joining of to show gratitude 



S'oodness widely proclaimed," in English idiom gives the possessive, " I widely proclaimed his 

 goodness." 



gune ona, goodness to us, a case of anadiplosis. 



ni age jabe Turano imbesa aintza ne. The verb age, root of agerri, in Etruscan means 

 inform. I think ja&e and imbesa are in apposition, the lord, the envoy of Tyrrhenia, that is 

 the representative of the Confederacy or Dominion, appointed probably by the Lucumo. I 

 read aintza ne as "who presents." 



156 Line 4. misa rako, towards the memorial. 



atso rakone : the final »i,e seems to change the postposition rako into a vei'b. In the Eugubine 

 Tables rano-ne is similarly employed, meaning to approach, join, yield to. recognize, be of the 

 same party. Here rakone seems to signif.y acknowledging or paj'ing respect to. 



goi jaun : this inversion of jaungoi or jaungoiko, the name of divinity among the Basques, 

 has already appeared in these pages in connection with votive inscriptions. It is in the genitive 

 of position to the following : 



kupida 110 ema : for kupida, see line 2. It is in the genitive governed by no. The verb 

 ema has ne at the end of line 3 for its subject. It governs the following agerri. 



gu ne agerri, to us declaration. 



157 Line 5. begiaumabeka : the first part is probably begi, eye. It may be the name of a god 

 or an old form for Providence ; nescio. 



iss Line 6. kupida no ema : see lines 4 and 2. 



norasa, may be for nau eritsi, he honours me. 



159 Line 7. ni lotu no : the verb lot, lotu, lotzen, now means to bind. In Etruscan it had a 

 more extended signification, being a synonym of banetuin the Eugubine Tables. The Choctaw 

 hollotti means bound ; but many words of similar form, like hlitoha, mean unbound. 



ikheretsi or ikherreste in Basque means gratitude. In this place it seems a verbal form, 

 namely eritisi, preceded by ka. As a noun the Basque ikherreste is a synonym of esker. The 

 original signification of etsi, whence onetsi, eritsi, ikerhetsi, gaitzetsi, is given, I think, in the 

 Choctaw, which has a verb eshih, ishih, isht, meaning to hold, receive, take. In Basque artu 

 has superseded etsi in these original senses of the word, but in composition it may be detected 



