AK-2.2

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Inscription
Transliteration:	]???ạs·a
Original script:	]???
Object:	AK-2 rock (stone) (Inscriptions: AK-2.1, AK-2.2, AK-2.3)
Position:	top, left
Orientation:	90°
Frame:	(, bottom, )
Script:	North Italic script (Magrè alphabet)
Direction of writing:	dextroverse
Letter height:	8 cm
Number of letters:	6
Number of characters:	7
Number of lines:	1
Craftsmanship:	engraved
Current condition:	damaged
Date of inscription:
Date derived from:
Type:	prob. votive
Language:	unknown
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	none

Images

Object AK-2 rock - eastern wall - with inscriptions AK-2.1, AK-2.2 and AK-2.3.	Object AK-2 rock with inscriptions AK-2.1, AK-2.2 and AK-2.3 - structure from motion image.	Object AK-2 rock - picture area 1 with inscriptions AK-2.1, AK-2.2 and AK-2.3.	Inscription AK-2.2.	Description of inscriptions AK-2.1, AK-2.2 and AK-2.3
Inscriptions AK-2.1, AK-2.2 and AK-2.3 - picture area 1.	Inscription AK-2.2.

Commentary

Not previously published. Examined by TIR in June 2015.

Image in Mandl 2011: Abb. 144 (photo).

Length min. 30 cm; running upwards on the upper part of the rock wall, left of the centre (Bildstelle 1).

The only unambiguously legible characters are . A deep mark of doubtful relevance in the form of a short vertical line is situated in the upper area after . Before , a triangle-shape which is best interpreted as another ; before this, a multi-branched character (see drawing) which might possibly be read or . Before that, at least two more illegible characters (see drawing); then, a horizontal crack along the rock face. No traces of an inscription can be made out below it. A slightly curving frame line can be seen below the characters.

Within the corpus of rock inscriptions, the present inscription can be compared with the type-2 petrographs– cf., on the same rock wall, AK-2.1, as well as AK-1.10, AK-1.11 and AK-1.17, which are all dextroverse and feature sigma with four strokes, and at Steinberg sinistroverse ST-5 and ST-6, also with ; see Raetic epigraphy. Of these, AK-1.11 and the two Steinberg inscriptions have punctuation marks. Cf. especially AK-1.11 ending in -kas?.

Bibliography

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