Miguel:
>The alphabetic Greek contains the name in the accusative (Aristo:na
>Aristo:naktos eupatride:n).
Ah that's right. Mea culpa.
>The part in Cypriot syllabary apparently contains only genitives:
>Aristo:nos Artowanxokoos "Kerakeretulos"
Actually that's wrong. It contains two locatives (mator-i "in the city",
Mukla-i "in Amathous") and one unmarked nominative (Lasana
"Tyrrhenian"). And "kera keretulose", no matter how you parse
it up into weird ways is just not Greek, nor is it Semitic (Cyrus already
failed). I've already stated the Etruscan equivalent "cara celutulease".
These two words are _attested_ and mean the exact same thing as
Greek /eupatriden/ "of precious birth".
- gLeN
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