COLIN/1

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1897:50
Macalister/1945:19
Site:COLIN
Discovery:first mentioned, 1865 Shearman, J.
History:Macalister/1945, 22: `The first discovery...was made by Rev. J. Shearman'.
Geology:
Dimensions:1.57 x 0.28 x 0.28 (converted from Macalister/1945)
Setting:in display
Location:National Museum, Dublin
Macalister/1945, 22: `National Museum, Dublin'.
Form:plain
Condition:inc , inc
Folklore:none
Crosses:none
Decorations:no other decoration

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Inscriptions


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Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1945):OVANOSAVII ||| VACA ||| TTOS
Expansion:
OVANOS AVI IVACATTOS
Macalister/1945 22 concise discussion
McManus/1991 61, 93 reading only

Notes

Orientation:vertical up along down
Position:n/a ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated
Incision:inc
Date:400 - 550 (Ziegler/1994)
Language:Goidelic (ogham)
Ling. Notes:See McManus/1991, 102, 103, 177.
Palaeography:none
Legibility:good
Macalister/1945, 22: `The Ogham (up-top-down) is worn, but not sufficiently so to explain the difficulty which decipherers have found in attaining to a correct copy...No importance whatever is to be attached to certain accidental scratches near the beginning, or to the three small nicks interpolated by some meddler above IV3 which collectively induced an early reading Duftanos'.
Lines:1
Carving errors:n
Doubtful:no

Names

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Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1945):IVVE{G}EDRVVIDE{S}
Expansion:
CELI TURLEGETTI
Macalister/1945 22--24 concise discussion
McManus, D. (1991):IVVE[N/R]EDRVVIDES
Expansion:
IVVE[N/R]E DRVVIDES
McManus/1991 61 reading only

Notes

Orientation:vertical up
Position:n/a ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated
Incision:inc
Date:None published
Language:Incomplete Information (rcaps)
Ling. Notes:McManus/1991, 61, argues that the second word DRVVIDES might be either Latin or Primitive Irish in the nominative plural.
Palaeography:none
Legibility:good
Macalister/1945, 22--23: `The S is reversed. The fifth character is neither a damaged R, overtopping the other letters like the other R, nor yet an N ligatured to the following E1: both explanations have been offered, and have led to such monstrous interpretations as IV VERE DRUUIDES, `The Four True Druids', and IVVENE DRVVIDES, `The Druid Youths.' The only possible explanation is that it is a G, derived not from the Roman but from the Greek alphabet'.

Macalister goes on to offer his own views on this inscription: `As it stands this succession of letters is quite unintelligible: to explain it we must write it out in oghams, invert it, and then re-transliterate it'.

McManus/1991, 61: `The most famous and at the same time the most baffling Latin letter inscription accompanying an Irish Ogam is 19...which was turned into an Ogam CELI TURLEGETTI by Macalister in a flight of interpretative fancy. Uncertainty regarding the fifth letter makes the interpretation of the first word difficult'.

Lines:1
Carving errors:n
Doubtful:no

Names

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