CIIC no. 156

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).

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".

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

ᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔᚔᚐᚏᚔᚕᚔᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔᚋᚑᚉᚉᚑᚓᚇᚑᚃᚃᚔᚅᚔᚐᚄ

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}.

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 Iaráin and in Corkaguiney" according to the Félire Æng., 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 Iaráin'."

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

MAQQI-IARIPI

This can be compared with Mac Erp.

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

ᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔᚔᚐᚏᚔᚕᚔᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔᚋᚒᚉᚉᚑᚔᚇᚑᚃᚃᚔᚅᚔᚐᚄ

MAQQIIARIKIMAQQIMUCCOIDOVVINIAS

U_2,3 "run together", and I₁ of MUCCOI "struggles out of the direct line". - Besides Rhŷs'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."

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".

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

Macalister's reading cannot be falsified.

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.

Reading McManus, Guide 65:

MAQQI IARI kOI MAQQI MuCCOI DOVVINIAS

Reading OSDP, 18 (5):

MAQQI-IARI K(O)I MAQQI MUCCOI DOVVINIAS

This is "a cross-inscribed stone".

Reading Gippert (1978):

"Surface angle, dexter - top - right":

MAQQI IARI (K)[OI] MAQQI MUCCOI DOVVINIAS

ᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔᚔᚐᚏᚔ(ᚕ)[ᚑᚔ]ᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔᚋᚒᚉᚉᚑᚔᚇᚑᚃᚃᚔᚅᚔᚐᚄ

ᚋᚐᚆᚆᚆᚆᚆ᚞ᚆᚆᚆᚆᚆᚐᚐᚐᚐᚐ᚞ᚐᚐᚐᚐᚐ᚞ᚐᚋᚋᚋᚋᚋᚐᚐᚐᚐᚐ(ᚕᚐ)[ᚐ᚞ᚐᚐᚐᚐᚐ]ᚋᚐᚆᚆᚆᚆᚆ᚞ᚆᚆᚆᚆᚆᚐᚐᚐᚐᚐᚋᚐᚐᚐᚆᚆᚆᚆ᚞ᚆᚆᚆᚆᚐᚐ᚞ᚐᚐᚐᚐᚐᚆᚆᚐᚐᚁᚁᚁ᚞ᚁᚁᚁᚐᚐᚐᚐᚐᚁᚁᚁᚁᚁᚐᚐᚐᚐᚐ᚞ᚐᚁᚁᚁᚁ

While the ᚕ forfed is still quite clear, the vowel notches that were read on the "top" of the stone by others are hardly recognizable at all.

Additional literature:

Félire Ængusa in TRIA, Ir.Ser., Vol. 1, CLIX.

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