ETRURIA CAPTA. 265 



in Etr. sema, denotes a son, and au, this, appears to have possessive 

 value, his son. His name Agizen or Agizene may relate to agiiz, 

 vigorous. The B. entzun, to hear, obey, is enttc, enlun in Etr., and 

 is of common occurrence in the Eugubine Tables. The other words, 

 iiko and ema, have already occurred. I regard Q as the equivalent 

 of O with a perpendicular line from the base, employed as HI, just as 

 O with a dot in the centre is in Celtiberian. The verb ranone ap- 

 pears in the Eug. Tab. with the meaning, surrender, come to, take 

 part with. It is a verbal form of rcmo, the postposition " towards." 



F. 726. 8ASYI • YLESNEI • LAYINIAL 



CENCVNIA 



The upper line, written fi'om right to left, is found upon the lid 

 of an urn, and the lower, as given, upon the urn itself. 



laranokuu • kusanenokaneu ■ sarakuukaurasa 



chinekachipikaura 

 lurreno koya Kusaneno ganio Saraku uga au eritsa 



zen Kachipika aur 

 earthen receptacle Kusaneno concerns Saraku mother his esteems 



late Kachipika's child. 



A. 41, Tav. II., is the inscription on a cup : 



MIVNEI • AM 



The first character is not M, but one repeating the upper angle of 

 this letter, and wanting the final pei-pendicular. I find it with I, 

 taking the place of 01, mai, in Lanzi, Saggio, No. 322 : 



MIADNO mai artu gomu 

 No. 323. MJLAPVM mai zarratu pino 



I therefore read the inscription : 



mai Pikaneu rano 

 inscription Pikaneu towards 



The most interesting of these inscriptions from a philological point 

 of view is the first (4. F. 3, No. 105). The Etr. and B. ilar, which 

 translates the Latin faba, is the root of illargi, the B. word for the 

 moon. The connection may have arisen out of the shape of the bean,' 

 or from a belief in the fable reported by Pliny (H. N. XYIIL, 30), 

 that the bean is the only grain that swells with the waxing moon. 

 In the Hittite and Aztec hieroglyphic systems the bean has a place. 



