AK-2.1

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Inscription
Transliteration: ]ṿasẹ?
Original script: ]V dA sS2 sE d?

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:

Language: unknown
Meaning: unknown

Alternative sigla: none

Images

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: A s and S2 s are well distinguishable, although the right hasta of A s converges with the lowest bar of S2 s. The character after S2 s is probably E d. After this, a group of lines which cannot be segmented: A hasta, inclined to the right, crossed by two bars to form Z d, but two additional lines converge with the haste on top. The distance of the group to E d is rather big; another vertical line might be detected between them. On the left of A s, at least one character, consisting of a hasta with bars extending to its right; V d 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 S2 s, as well as sinistroverse ST-5 and ST-6, also with S2 s. 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 V d and A s and a more shallow, moss-filled one between S2 s and E d – 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 punctuation s appears after S2 s.

Bibliography

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