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chette's copy, so that we may consider that it 

 certainly exists in the original ; 2ndly, the second 

 letter is g instead of u ; Srdly, there are stops in 

 the middle of the word. If these stops are 

 correct, we have a name which, after taking off 

 the genitive termination, will be reduced to 

 three letters, which is highly improbable, as 

 the great length of the proper names is quite a 

 marked feature of the language. It is much 

 more probable that the stops indicate the place 

 of a letter which has been defaced by time, and 

 that the word had originally ten letters. If we 

 follow Professor Grotefend's conjecture, that the 

 father and son had both the same name, we may 

 fill up the blank at the beginning of the word 

 by i, and that in the middle by s, and omitting 

 the genitive ending, we shall thus obtain Igttasula 

 for the name, which is sufficiently near to the 

 Greek form. There is however no reason for 

 forcing the two names together, as it is very 

 unusual on these tombs to find the father and 

 son with the same name. 



There is no such blank in the next part of the 

 sentence as to make it indispensable that we 

 should add anything at the end of the second 

 line, the words urppe lade euwe se tedeeme, for his 



