AK-1.11

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Inscription
Transliteration:	????]ẹ?ḳer·(a)ṇu·aḷekas?
Original script:	?? ??
Object:	AK-1 rock (stone) (Inscriptions: AK-1.1, AK-1.2, AK-1.3, AK-1.4, AK-1.5, AK-1.6, AK-1.7, AK-1.8, AK-1.9, AK-1.10, AK-1.11, AK-1.12, AK-1.13, AK-1.14, AK-1.15, AK-1.16, AK-1.17, AK-1.18, AK-1.19, AK-1.20, AK-1.21)
Position:	bottom, right
Orientation:	90°
Script:	North Italic script (Magrè alphabet)
Direction of writing:	dextroverse
Letter height:	9 cm
Number of letters:	14
Number of characters:	16
Number of lines:	1
Craftsmanship:	engraved
Current condition:	damaged
Date of inscription:	unknown [from object]
Date derived from:
Type:	prob. votive
Language:	Raetic
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	TM 653503

Images

Inscription AK-1.11.

Object AK-1 rock - picture area 4 with inscriptions AK-1.9, AK-1.10, AK-1.11, AK-1.12, AK-1.13 and AK-1.14.

Tracing of inscriptions on AK-1 rock.

Inscription AK-1.11.

Inscriptions AK-1.9, AK-1.10, AK-1.11, AK-1.12, AK-1.13 and AK-1.14 - picture area 4.

Commentary

Not previously published. Examined by TIR in July 2014.

Image in Mandl 2011: Abb. 141 (photo).

Length min. 46 cm, starting at about 60 cm from the ground, running vertically upwards, to the immediate right of AK-1.10; the best preserved of the inscriptions in Bildstelle 4.

Traces of about four characters (the last possibly ?) before tentative , the exact localisation of whose bars is uncertain. After this, an angle in the lower area, possibly of . Then probably ; is well legible. Next, a clearly visible separator, followed by with very faint bar (but see below). After a narrow lacuna, and another separator. is unproblematic (but see below), more doubtful. After , a hasta, then a curved crack. At about 10 cm beyond the crack, potential traces of more characters, but not quite in line with the row of letters described – the inscription probably ends at the crack.

The sequence in the middle of an inscription is strongly reminiscent of the Steinberg rock inscriptions ST-5 and ST-6, which feature the suffix syntagma -nu-ale written with the first element separated by short medial puncts and written in ligature . In AK-1.11, no angle in the lower area before can be made out with any certainty, instead the small lacuna contains a round indentation, which is most probably natural (the other separators in the inscription appearing as ). In both ST-5 and ST-6, alpha precedes -nu-ale, but in ST-6, only the element -nu is written between separators. Despite the lacuna it cannot be excluded that the tall chevron identified as by us does not feature a bar and represents the angle of in a ligature . In this case, the first separator in AK-1.11 would be inserted in accordance with its usage in ST-6. The letter between and , here read as lambda, actually appears as with two bars. The emendation to lambda is based on linguistic grounds, but note that in both ST-5 and ST-6, lambda appears in different variants, with the bar extending from the centre of the hasta. In AK-1.11, the writer may have applied one of the bars to correct a mistake; in any case, either of them might be considered the correct one, hence vs. . AK-1.11 is one of three type-2 petrographs on this rock wall; cf. AK-1.10 and AK-1.17; see Raetic epigraphy.

Bibliography

Mandl 2011	Franz Mandl, Felsbilder. Österreich – Bayern: Nördliche Kalkalpen [= Anisa – Verein für alpine Forschung 4], Haus im Ennstal: 2011.