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5. A. 401, Tav. VI. XaiJ.-AR • TRIIBI ■ HISTRO 



Mr.—AO • YPE/LI • OANA • SA 

 rama kutunebau marakara anre 

 erama Kutunebai Marakara andre 

 it bears Kutunebai Marakara's wife 



What the sculptoi- meant by Kutunebai as Triibis I cannot 

 imagine. The Etr. kutune answers generally to the Basque ekiten, 

 to undertake ; hence hahi ekiten would mean to undertake a pledge, 

 or to engage oneself. The name Marakara is identical in form with 

 the term commonly designating a memorial. Here, however, it 

 translates Histro, itself an Etruscan word. The B. arrokeria means 

 boasting, romancing, rodomontade ; marraka, which seems to connect 

 with it, means any strange noise, such as mewing, bellowing, bleat- 

 ing. The element iniara appears, a little altered in form, in churi- 

 muri, zurumuru, a vague rumour, the final tnuru denoting the noise 

 or sound. The modern B. word for the poet or improviser is kobla- 

 kari, kobla being a Provencal term meaning strophe or stanza. He 

 is thus a stanza-bearer ; and the mara, rnarra or murukari must 

 have been the bearer of strange or inflated sounds, the actor. 



8. A. 719, Tav. VIII. Lat.—L ■ SCARPVS • SCARPIAE • L • TVcIPA 

 Mr— LATNO • SCAP/IP • LAVYNI 



In the Etr. the /IP of SCAP/IP are peculiar in form, the / 

 being rounded at the top and the P having a lower horizontal limb, 

 making it appear like a combination of P and L. Also final YNI 

 are indistinct. 



zaratu kama • nochiratubatu • sarapikukau 



zarratu gomu no jarri du Batu Sarapi egokio 



written memorial which present does Batu Sarapi concerns 



The name Scarpus is the Basque Sarapi, pi'obably pronounced 

 Sharpi. That most unclassical word Tucipa translates Batu, the 

 common Etr. word for an army, which I have already shewn the i"e- 

 lation of to the Jap. butsu, to fight and bicshi, a soldier. It must, 

 therefore, be a barbarous derivation from the Greek teuchea, answer- 

 ing to teuchophoros, an armed man. 



9. A. 774, Tav. IX., is on a seal. The first line, supposed to be 

 Latin, is, in the original, written from right to left : the second, 

 from left to right. The initial letter of the first line is obscure, and 

 so are the two in the second, which I have treated as Y or T. 



