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circle above the base giving it the appearance of a tripod. I suppose 

 it, therefore, to be composed of X and Y and to represent gogo. 



mara ' Aginkau • Sara 



DO di gogotu ra 



memorial Aginkai Sorano from to remember 



Here again a proper name is separated by the lines. The inscrip- 

 tion was found between Bolsena, the ancient Vulsinii, and Sorano, 

 which is not mentioned by the classical geographers. The postposi- 

 tion di or dik from, by, after, out of, is well represented by II, the 

 first element in dehe. 



I do not think it possible to make Latin of the right or perfect 

 side. Of the mutilated left, asma, asma, erama, ra, give no con- 

 nected sense. The I'ight reads in Etruscan : 



chiukarane • ahal 

 chi • upituuchi • 

 rano ■ chimauagchine 

 netuneukuma ■ mipineno 

 chipiranone 



I read Q as mi and the inverted C as if it were not inverted : 



Chiukarane • al Chiukarane ■ poten- 



tzu • obeto hitz • -tate • best word ■ 



rano , seme au Agizen towards * son Agizen 



entun uko ema • imbe nion to obey refusal giving ■ send I him did 



chipi ranone the youth to reconcile 



Chiukarane is evidently the name of a place. It can hardly de- 

 note Clusium, where the bi-onze plate containing the inscription was 

 found. The following alchi, altsi, analogous in form to the B. cdtsu, 

 powerful, I suppose to be an Etr. noun, the power-holder or poten- 

 tate, governing Chiukarane in the genitive of position. Literally 

 oheto hitz rano means " towards the better word." It is probably a 

 polite acknowledgment, answering to the hackneyed "your es- 

 teemed favour " of the English letter-writer. The following seme, 



