ETRURIA CAPTA. 261 



/lEL • A AX 



REL ■ TETII 



banesa para ku banaiz parago 



tunesa • kunekuda duenza gune gudu 



" I will be placed for who does to us fight ; " which I suppose 

 means " I am at the disposition of any one who wishes to attack us." 

 It is thus probably an armorial motto. The Etr. equivalent of the 

 B. naiz, namely banaiz, is now well known. The verb ^xwa, 

 paratu to place, extend, is in the future with the suffix go. The 

 compound duenza consists of dueii, who does or has, and z, the post- 

 position. In the Eugubine Tables YII denotes the modern gudu, a 

 fight, in distinction from YP, now ekit, undertake. In Etr. guda or 

 gudu is a verbal form. There is no Latin in the inscription. 



15. Lat.—G : ANNIVS • L • F • COELTA • GNAT 

 mr.—'FE'L • ANNE • CV/SNAL 



aginza rakakane chipibanokarasa 

 aginza Erkaka ne Chipibano sortze 

 offering Erkaka to Chipibano natus 



The name Annius must stand for Annukis. The B. for ring is 

 erhaztun, from erhi, the finger. Finger-tip is erkain. The Jap. 

 kake, to hang, hook, put on, &c., which makes kake-gane, a ring and 

 staple for fastening a door, agrees with the B. kako, translated by 

 the French crochet. I suppose, therefore, an old B. or Etr. word 

 erkaka, a finger ring. The translation of Coelia by Chipibano I can- 

 not explain. Were the second character A. instead of.Y, some sense 

 might be made of zeruhano. 



17. Lat.—O • ARRIVS • C • F • Q 



Mr.— AO ■ APNYNI • VmPANAL 



rama artukakukau piraiturakarasa 

 eraraa Artukakukai Bemitura sortze 

 it bears Artukaku Kai Bemitura natus 



Artukaku, or in modern B. artugogo, means, to hold the memory, 

 and is a common formula in sepulchral inscriptions. Here it is a 

 proper name. It may have been used technically to denote the 

 arrha or earnest money which kept the seller in mind of the bargain 

 with the intending purchaser. The final Kai is, I think, an Etr. 

 form of Caius. 



