Maglocunus stone

Maglocunus Stone with Ogham Signs and Latin Letters

The Maglocunus stone , also called Nevern stone I , is a stone slab with inscriptions that dates from the 5th century to the beginning of the 6th century AD. One inscription is made up of Ogham characters and the other is made up of Latin letters . The Maglocunus Stone was discovered in 1904 in St. Brynach's Church in the small village of Nevern, County Pembrokeshire , Wales and can now be seen there as a walled-in windowsill panel .

description

The stone slab is 159 cm long, 33 cm wide and 10 cm thick. In its original use, the stone was oriented vertically. It was rotated 90 degrees so that it could later be used as a plate for the church window sill.

Inscriptions

The following readings with their translations are taken from the publication of the English linguist Andrew Christopher West (* 1960). With regard to the inscriptions on the Maglocunus stone, there are also other types of reading and transmission options with minor differences.

Marking of the inscriptions

Ogham inscription:

᚛ ᚋᚐᚌᚂᚔᚉᚒᚅᚐᚄᚋᚐᚊᚔᚉᚂᚒᚈᚐ (ᚏᚔ)

(Reading direction in the adjacent markings from bottom to top, in the photo above from right to left)

Transmission:

MAGLICUNAS MAQI CLUTA (RI)

Translation:

(Stone) of Maglicunas, son of Clutaria

Latin inscription:

MAGLOCVNFILICLVTOR−

This Latin inscription is located on the windowsill plate above the horizontal Ogham line and is more difficult to see. In terms of content, the statement is the same as in the Ogham inscription.

Transmission:

MAGLOCVN (I) FILI CLVTORI

Translation:

(Stone) of Maglocunus, son of Clutorius

Dating

The Maglocunus stone is dated from 400 to 540 AD in research. Victor Erle Nash-Williams dates the inscriptions to AD 400-533 in his 1950 publication.Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson 1953 AD 450-499 and Charles Thomas 1994 AD 500-540.

See also

• Ogham stones of Wales
• Vitalianus stone

literature

• Jackson, KH (Kenneth Hurlstone): Language and History in Early Britain, Edinburgh 1953
• Nash-Williams, VE (Victor Erle): The Early Christian Monuments of Wales, Cardiff 1950
• Macalister, RAS (Robert Alexander Stewart): Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum 1, Dublin 1945
• Thomas, Charles: And Shall These Mute Stones Speak? Post-Roman Inscriptions in Western Britain, Cardiff 1994.
• Ziegler, Sabine: The language of the old Irish Ogam inscriptions. Historical Linguistics, Supplement 36, Göttingen 1994

Web links

• The Ogham Stones of Wales. Nevern Stone I - in English
• Photos, also with colored highlighting of the characters, on the website of the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (No. 14; numbering in each case top left)
• Description of the Maglocunus stone and detailed linguistic analysis of the inscriptions on the archaeological page of University College London - in English
• Illustration and description of the Maglocunus stone - in English
• Illustrations and descriptions of the Maglocunus stone and the Vitalianus stone (Nevern stone II) - in English

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Ogham Stones of Wales. Nevern Stone I.
2. ↑ cf. Description under photo
3. ^ The Ogham Stones of Wales. Nevern Stone I.
4. ↑ sub NEVRN / 1/1 Ogham Inschrfit under NEVRN / 1/2 Latin inscription
5. ^ The Ogham Stones of Wales. Nevern Stone I.

Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ 31.7 ″  N , 4 ° 47 ′ 42.5 ″  W.