Miscellany presented to Kuno Meyer by some of his friends and pupils on the occasion of his appointment to the chair of Celtic philology in the University of Berlin . / [. . ratulC i qaM .s a 11 u c i IgaM] Now the M and A come out large and sprawling, exceptthat the top of the A is damaged; the G is not of the shape Ihad supposed as it is of the ordinary reaping-hook form. TheL tends to have its perpendicular prolonged somewhat below itshorizontal line. The first V seems joined to the top of the pre-ceding C, and that of CLVTORhh ends under the roof of the Twhich is rather a tall letter, thou
Miscellany presented to Kuno Meyer by some of his friends and pupils on the occasion of his appointment to the chair of Celtic philology in the University of Berlin . / [. . ratulC i qaM .s a 11 u c i IgaM] Now the M and A come out large and sprawling, exceptthat the top of the A is damaged; the G is not of the shape Ihad supposed as it is of the ordinary reaping-hook form. TheL tends to have its perpendicular prolonged somewhat below itshorizontal line. The first V seems joined to the top of the pre-ceding C, and that of CLVTORhh ends under the roof of the Twhich is rather a tall letter, though not so tall as the R whichis taller than all the letters near it, just as the 0 is somewhatsmaller than the other letters. The F is rather a decadent letterwith its short bar drooping; the last and final I is is no trouble-as to the reading of any of the letters exceptat the end of the first name. The previous time I suggested M I,though I could not closely examine the spot. Now on closerscrutiny I cannot satisfy as to the i)resence of M I: if onereads M there is no I and if one reads I there is no k1. I was *-iià ^ [Jk nbrokesl. A Bilingual Inscription at Nevern, Pembrokeshire.(Photograph of a rubbing). THREE ANCIENT INSCHIPTIONS, 229 not a little influenced hj Lloyd the mason who insisted that thelast letter but one was a V like the V immediately precedingit. So far as the roughness of the stone permits one to decidethe I does not seem to touch the nearest writing before it: thatis, it could not be M but VI, though there is no objection to Mas such, for it occurs on the Vitaliani stone close by. On thewhole I think one must read the Latin genitive as MAGLOCVVIand the whole as MAGLOCVVI FILI CLVTOR—. The reading of the Ogam in my paper in the Journal ofthe Cambrians is correct as far as it goes — Maglicunas maqiGlut. One can now add two more letters at the end, makingthe whole read as follows: ///linm IPII1|/íhihV.|IV//// That is 3IagUcunas m
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