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:	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:	6
Number of characters:	7
Number of lines:	1
Craftsmanship:	engraved
Current condition:	damaged
Date of inscription:
Date derived from:
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. 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 presence of more inscriptions between AK-2.1 and AK-2.2, today unreadable, cannot be completely excluded.

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 mulit-branched character (see drawing) which might possibly be read or . Before that, at least two more illegible characters (see drawing); then, a horizontal crack runs along the rock face. No traces of an inscription can be made out below it.

Within the corpus of rock inscriptions, the present inscription can be compared with AK-2.1, AK-1.10, AK-1.11 and AK-1.17, which are all dextroverse and feature Sigma with four strokes, as well as sinistroverse ST-5 and ST-6, also with . Of these, AK-1.11 and the two Steinberg inscriptions have punctuation marks. Cp. esp. 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.