CIIC no. 157

Location and history:

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

Size according to Brash, OIM 202: 3'3" x 1'3" x 9"

Size according to Macalister, CIIC: 3'1" x 1'1 1/2" x 0'6"

Published illustrations:

Brash, OIM pl. XXIII (fig. 3.) ( draft);

Macalister, CIIC 1, 152 ( outline of inscription.

Reading Ferguson, PRIA 15, 1871, 62:

DOFETIMAQQICATTINI

"Proposed Verbation":

dofeti maqqi cattini

The stone is assigned "No. XX" in Ferguson's "List of Moulds of

Inscribed Stones from .. Localities in the Barony of Corkaguiney".

Reading Ferguson, OI 34 (48.):

DOFETIMAQQICATTINI

"Dofeti maqqi Cattini"

The inscription "doubtless preserves the name of `Dofet, son of Cattin'."

Reading Brash, OIM 202 ("No. 3."):

ᚇᚑᚃᚓᚈᚔᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔᚉᚐᚈᚈᚔᚅᚔ

DOFETIMAQQICATTINI

DOFETI MAQQI CATTINI

"(Stone of) `DOFET THE SON OF CATTIN.'"

The name Doveti, "without the prefix DO-, will be found in the Mart.Don., 213, in the form of Fethi"; cp. also Feti as a "potter's mark upon red Samian ware. Cel.Rom.Sax., 456. Dofat appears on one of the Clydai group, Wales {431}. Cattin is a familiar form", cp. "Catan, Mart.Don. pp. 37, 335, 71, as Cathan, Ann. 4 Mas., A.D. 1036. The name is also to be seen on one of the Ballinrannig find" {153}. "Gaulish forms, Catonius .. Gruter, 14.3 .. pr. Rhenum. Catino .. Orel. 1964. Catuso .. Momms. 62 .. Genev." - Brash further refers to the inscription at Worthyvale reading CATIN HIC IACIT FILIVS MAGARI; cp. MACCIARI on the last mentioned stone from Ballintaggart {156}. Lastly cp. the tribe of the Catti, "who gave their name to Caithness, North Britain.

Reading Rhys (quoted by Macalister, Epig. 1, 35):

Dovetos might be connected with the Biblical David.



Reading Macalister, Epig. 1, 34 (14. / III.):

ᚇᚑᚃᚓᚈᚔᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔᚉᚐᚈᚈᚔᚅᚔ

DOVETIMAQQICATTINI

This is "the monument `of Dovetos, son of Cattinos'; Dovetos was probably a brother of the owner of Ballinrannig VI {153}." Dovetos is rather connected with DOV- in DOVVINIAS {156} than with the Biblical David as suggested by Rhŷs, "though it must be submitted that there is no other authority for -eti instead of -itti."

Reading Macalister, CIIC:

DOVETI MAQQI CATTINI

This is "perhaps commemorating a brother of the owner of Ballinrannig VI" {153}).

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

[Macalister's reading is supported.]

Interpretation Korolev, DP, 78:

DOVETI MAQQI CATTINI

[No comment is given.]

Reading McManus, Guide 65:

DOVETI MAQQI CATTINI

Reading OSDP, 18 (6):
DOVETI MAQQI CATTINI

Reading Gippert (1978):

"Surface angle, dexter - top - sinister":

DOVETI MAQQI CATTINI

ᚇᚑᚃᚓᚈᚔᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔᚉᚐᚈᚈᚔᚅᚔ

ᚆᚆᚐᚐᚁᚁᚁᚐᚐᚐᚐᚆᚆᚆᚐᚐᚐᚐᚐᚋᚐᚆᚆᚆᚆᚆ᚞ᚆᚆᚆᚆᚆᚐᚐᚐᚐᚐᚆᚆᚆᚆᚐᚆᚆᚆ᚞ᚆᚆᚆᚐᚐᚐᚐᚐᚁᚁᚁᚁᚁᚐᚐᚐᚐᚐ

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