AK-2.1

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Inscription
Transliteration:	]ṿasẹ?
Original script:	]?
Object:	AK-2 rock (stone) (Inscriptions: AK-2.1, AK-2.2, AK-2.3)
Position:
Orientation:	90°
Script:	North Italic script
Direction of writing:	dextroverse
Letter height:	10 cm
Number of letters:	4
Number of lines:	1
Craftsmanship:	engraved
Current condition:	damaged
Date of inscription:	unknown
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-2.1.	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-2.1.

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. 28.6 cm; running upwards on the upper part of the rock wall, left of the centre (Bildstelle 1). The area left of the inscription 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 hasta on top. The distance of the group to is rather big; another vertical line might be detected between them. Before , 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, two 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, no traces of characters can be detected – the lines might only be runlets.

Within the corpus of rock inscriptions, 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 feature Sigma with four strokes, 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.