242 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



CLOSE TRANSLATION OF THE LEADEN TABLET OF MAGLIANO. 



Front. 



To Heaven first I, Goumimami, render thanks for Lord Kupima passing the 



age of 80. The tablet of regard to give honour in the exercise of 



authority he passed an age rarely seen. • Tyrrhenia refusing to send 



a tablet expressing gratulation, I of myself resolved to bring a monument 

 which shows that G-oumimami has the desire to provide a tablet of regard, a 

 tablet of honour to set forth his predecessor. Until he passes six years having 

 Goumimami as colleague, by which union to myself he passes a quiet old age, 

 the lord Kupima exercises authority alone forty years. He commands the 

 envoy to give me the power of receiving entire authority. 



Beverse. 



I myself requested the coordinate cities to help towards bringing the 

 memorial. Little does he care for attaining so great an age. To pay regard 

 to the compassion of Heaven I gave Lord Kupima this offering. By behold- 

 ing, it will inform him who placed a suitable •. I published abroad his 



goodness, his goodness to us. I inform ihe lord, the envoy of Tyrrhenia, that 

 he who presents towards the memorial, acknowledging the age, gives us an 

 indication of the compassion of God. giving of the com- 

 passion, he honours me by joining me to show gratitude. 



I conclude this paper with a transliteration of the groups of char- 

 acters contained in the Augurial Templum of Piacenza to which 

 allusion has been made on page 222. This I do in the hope that 

 scholars possessing a better knowledge of Basque and of the subjects 

 likely to be set forth in such a Templum than I possess may be able 

 to shed light upon it. The Templum consists of a number of com- 

 partments indicated by a double series of numbers as follows : 



1. ANI ONE rakau makane ? raka = argi, light. 



2. VNI HAD pikau baratu pikoya burdax, end of the plough 



3. YEO FIl kunema agba See 13' gune ema agba, place gives 



4. LEON sanemaka See 9 



5. EG nema 



6. CAO chirama zeru ema 



as the verbal termination — tze-tzen, just as artu appears in — artze-artzen. To gain the heart 

 is in Basque goga-tu, goga-tze ; in Choctaw it is ehukush-eshih. Thus on-etsi originally meant 

 to hold good, and gaitz-etsi, to hold bad, and etsi is but another form of atchiki, to hold. Also 

 er-itsi maj' be derived from arau, rule, right, proportion, fitness, with the original signification 

 to hold aright or fitly. It is only by careful and full comparison of words and constructions in 

 the different Khitan languages that the radicals can be detected and a scientific system of 

 etymology be made to take the place of conjecture. 



