AK-2.1
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| Transliteration: | ]ṿasẹ? |
| Original script: | ]    ?
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| Object: | AK-2 rock (stone) (Inscriptions: AK-2.1, AK-2.2, AK-2.3) |
| Position: | left area"left 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 |
| Number of letters: | 3 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Craftsmanship: | engraved |
| Current condition: | damaged |
| Date of inscription: | |
| Date derived from: | |
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| Language: | unknown |
| Meaning: | unknown |
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| Alternative sigla: | none |
Images
 Inscription AK-2.1.
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 Inscription AK-2.1.
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Commentary
Not previously published. Autopsied by TIR in June 2015.
Image in Mandl 2011: Abb. 144 (photo). Photo of the entire rock wall in Mandl 2011: Abb. 143.
Length min. ??? cm. Running upwards on the upper part of the rock wall, left of the centre (Bildstelle 1). The area to its left is darker and heavily eroded; the presence of more inscriptions, today unreadable, cannot be completely excluded.
Only three characters are passably well legible: and are well distinguishable, although the right hasta of converges with the lowest bar of . The character after is probably . After this, a group of lines which cannot be segmented: A hasta, inclined to the right, crossed by two bars to form 
, but two additional lines converge with the haste on top. The distance of the group to is rather big; another vertical line might be detected between them. On the left of , at least one character, consisting of a hasta with bars extending to its right; is the best guess, but a third bar, almost horizontal, appears to extend above the lower one. Before this character, a horizontal crack runs along the rock face. Below it, tw frame lines appear to extend to about ??? cm under the crack. While it cannot be excluded that the inscription, of which we only see the end, was originally that long, but no traces of characters can be detected – the lines might only be runlets.
Within the corpus of rock inscription, the present inscription can be compared with AK-2.2, AK-1.10, AK-1.11 and AK-1.17, which are all dextroverse and and feature four-stroked , as well as sinistroverse ST-5 and ST-6, also with . Of these, AK-2.2, AK-1.11 and the two Steinberg inscriptions have punctuation marks. Two holes between the characters in AK-2.1 – a deep one between and and a more shallow, moss-filled one between and – might be interpreted as punctuation marks, but may well be merely natural defects. Cp. esp. AK-2.2 on the same rock, where a punctuation mark in the form of a dot 
appears after .
Bibliography
| Mandl 2011 | Franz Mandl, Felsbilder. Österreich – Bayern: Nördliche Kalkalpen [= Anisa – Verein für alpine Forschung 4], Haus im Ennstal: 2011. |
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