AK-1.11
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| Transliteration: | ????]ẹ?ḳer·(a)ṇu·aḷekas? |
| Original script: |  ?        ?? ?
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| 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: | centre"centre" is not in the list (front, back, top, bottom, inside, outside, neck, shoulder, foot, handle, ...) of allowed values for the "position" property., lower area"lower area" is not in the list (front, back, top, bottom, inside, outside, neck, shoulder, foot, handle, ...) of allowed values for the "position" property. |
| Orientation: | 90° |
| Script: | North Italic script |
| 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 |
| Archaeological culture: | La Tène |
| Date of inscription: | 5th–1st centuries BC |
| Date derived from: | |
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| Language: | Raetic |
| Meaning: | unknown |
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| Alternative sigla: | none |
Images
 Inscription AK-1.11.
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 Tracing of inscriptions on AK-1 rock.
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 Inscription AK-1.11.
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Commentary
Not previously published. Autopsied by TIR in July 2014.
Image in Mandl 2011: Abb. 141 (photo). Photo of the entire rock wall in Mandl 2011: Abb. 136.
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 utilisable of the inscriptions in Bildstelle 4.
Traces of about four characters (the last possibly ?) before tentative , the exact localisation of whose bars is dubious. 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 scratches and written in ligature 
. 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, a 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 the 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 l, 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 varieties 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. .
Bibliography
| Mandl 2011 | Franz Mandl, Felsbilder. Österreich – Bayern: Nördliche Kalkalpen [= Anisa – Verein für alpine Forschung 4], Haus im Ennstal: 2011. |
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