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Ogam-Inschrift: CIIC-Nr. 156

Ogam Inscription: CIIC no. 156

Original location: Ballintaggart

County: Kerry

Surroundings: Burial Ground

Year of discovery: 0

Actual location: =

Illustrations:

Actual reading:

Other readings, history, comments etc.:

Location and history:

For the location and discovery, cf. {155.}.

Size according to Brash, OIM 201 ("No. 2"): 3'4" x 13" x 10"
Size according to Macalister, CIIC: 3'6" x 1'1" x 0'5"

Published illustrations:

Brash, OIM pl. XXIII, no. 2. (draft);

Macalister, CIIC 1, 152 (draft).

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Reading Ferguson, PRIA 15, 1871, 62:

"N(orth) Side":
MAQQI [M?] ARIAI
"S(outh) Side":
MAQQIMUCOIDOFFINIAS
"Proposed verbation":
maqqi [m]ariai. maqqi muccoi doffinias.
The stone is assigned "No. XIX" in Ferguson's "List of Moulds of Inscribed Stones from .. Localities in the Barony of Corkaguiney".

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Reading Brash, OIM 201 ("No. 2"):

пвононедедвтседхедпвононедпгомомгегмгййедкйедвки
MAQQIIARI IMAQQOMOCCOEDOFFINIAS
Brash's copy "agrees with Mr. Windele's". The reading is beyond doubt. - Cp. the name Magari on an "inscription in debased Roman letters" in Cornwall, at Worthyvale, near Camelford" {470}.

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Reading Ferguson, OI 34 (47.):

MAQQIIARIPOIMAQQIMUCCOiDoFFINIAS
EA
"Maqqi Iari poi maqqi muccoi Doffinias."
"This is one of the most clearly inscribed and easily transliterated of the group." - A "name Iar, father of the father of four virgins" is "stated to be venerated at Cell Ingen Iarяin and in Corkaguiney" according to the F‚lire ’ng., 26. Oct.; cf. TRIA, Ir.Ser. 1, clix. Maqi Iari may "be suppoesd to have been a person of sufficient distinction to have been remembered as son - perhaps only son - of his father. Or it may be that such formulas were in use when the son was called after the father, or by a diminution of the father's name, as in `Cell Ingen Iarяin'."

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Reading RhЯs (quoted by Macalister, Epig. 1, 34):

MAQQI-IARIPI
This can be compared with Mac Erp.

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Reading Macalister, Epig. 1, 34 (13. / II.):

пвононедедвтседхедпвононедпдомомгедмгййедкйедвки
MAQQIIARIKIMAQQIMUCCOIDOVVINIAS
U_2,3 "run together", and I₁ of MUCCOI "struggles out of the direct line". - Besides RhЯs's proposal of comparing Maqqi-Iaripi with Mac Erp, one could think of reading Maqqi-Iariki, to be connected with Mac Erc, "though orthography and accidence are both against it." But on "three other unquestionable monuments of the Corco Duibne, the "mythic ancestress' name" [i.e., DOVVINIA] is associated with "Erc, or its feminine Ercis"; cf. Coumeenoole {178}! "Another possibility would be to read Maqqi-Iari ki, taking ki in the sense which seemed distantly possible for cci on Ballinrannig VI {153}. - "Dovv-in- is a derivative in -in- from a base *Dov-, also traceable in Dov-et- {157}, Dov-aidon- {503: Ballaqueeny / Man}. - [Additional remark in Epig. 3, 6:] "Maqqi-Iariki must be resolved into Maqqi-Iari ki, the ki being the same as cci at Ballinrannig {153} and the koi which appears on a certain number of stones."

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Reading Macalister, CIIC:

Inscription up-top-down:
MAQQI-IARI KOI MAQQI MUCCOI DOVVINIAS
"The vowels of KOI are so cramped and faint that it is difficult to avoid mistaking the word for -KI, appended to the name IARI. But KOI is certainly correct".

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Reading O'Kelly, JCHAS 50, 1945, 152:

Macalister's reading cannot be falsified.

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Interpretation Korolev, DP 78:

MAQQI IARI KOI MAQQI MUCCOI DOVVINIAS
The inscription is well preserved. The only late trait in the otherwise archaic inscription is the usage of the forfed K.

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Reading McManus, Guide 65:

MAQQI IARI kOI MAQQI MuCCOI DOVVINIAS

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Reading Gippert (1978):

"Surface angle, dexter - top - right":
MAQQI IARI (K)[OI] MAQQI MUCCOI DOVVINIAS
пвононедедвтсед(х)[гед]пвононедпдомомгедмгййедкйедвки
пвлллллжлллллвввввжвввввжвпппппввввв(хв)[вжввввв]пвлллллжлллллвввввпвввллллжллллввжвввввллввзззжзззвввввзззззвввввжвзззз
While the х forfed is still quite clear, the vowel notches that were read on the "top" of the stone by others are hardly recognizable at all.

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Additional literature:

F‚lire ’ngusa in TRIA, Ir.Ser., Vol. 1, CLIX.

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Last changes of this record: 27.04.97

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