Etruscan Inscriptions in the Royal Ontario Museum

inscriptions on cinerary urns of a cylindrical type common at Chiusi.1 The urns were published in Hayes 1985 under the catalogue entry numbers G13 and G15.2 Another inscription on a cinerary urn of this same type, G14,3 was published by Hayes in Studi Etruschi (Hayes 1975) and so was included in Rix’s compendium of Etruscan texts (ET Cl 1.2484).4 G13 and G15 seem to have been overlooked. 2. Inscription G13 was painted in dark red on the round lid of the urn in sinistroverse direction (photograph 1).5 Hayes (1985: 166) transcribed G13 as in (1).6 (1) vepnep vi¶cna. l. se≠ Hayes ’ reading may be improved upon in several ways. First of all, the third letter of word one is tau. The oblique cross bar dissects the vertical near the top à. The final letter must be iota. A short dash of red paint appears near the bottom of the vertical stroke, but this is accidental or perhaps the result of the scribe not cleanly lifting his brush from the surface of the ceramic.7 The first word is vetnei, a feminine family name. In two places words are separated by punctuation in the form of a colon. This dividing sign is visible after vetnei and after lambda. A single dot stands between th