EÜGUBINE or IGUVINE TABLES, Tabula Eugu-bince, are seven tablets of brass containing a series of sacerdotal inscriptions in the ancient Umbrian language, of inestimable value to the student of Italian linguistic. According to Concioli, they were discovered in 1444 amid the ruins of a theatre in the vicinity of Gubbio (the ancient Eugubium or Iguvium), and according to Passeri, they were bequeathed in 1456 by a private citizen to the public authorities of the town. Considerable doubt exists as to the original number of the tablets. Concioli asserts that nine were discovered, but that two were taken to Venice in 1540 and never brought back; other early notices speak of eight, and even M. Bréal is inclined to hope that the Venetian tablets may yet be recovered. The seven are preserved in the palazzo municipale cf their native city, and much more truly than Dante’s missal-painter Oderisi they form l , onor di Eugubio. Taken altogether they furnish 447 lines, for the most part continuous and entire. Tables I., IL, V., and VI. are engraved on both sides, but a considerable blank space is left on one side in the case of II. and V., and the back of VII. contains only a few lines. The inscriptions read from right to left; those of V. and VII., and nearly all on the obverse of V., are in Roman letters; the rest, which are pretty certainly of earlier date, are in Etruscan letters. According to M. Bréal, they may be ascribed to the first and second century a.d. For three centuries after their discovery nothing was known as to the contents of the tables: Salmasius confessed he could not even say whether they should be read from right to left or from left to right. The first attempt at divining their meaning was made by Bernardinus Baldus in the beginning of the 17th century, ...