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Image: CIIC 156 (Richard Brash, 1879)

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Description: Ogam inscribed stone CIIC 156 (description and photo) read as "MAQQI IARI (K)[OI] MAQQI MUCCOI DOVVINIAS". Found at Ballintaggart, County Kerry, Ireland. "MAQQI MUCCOI DOVVINIAS" is understood as meaning that the stone commemorated a member of the Corco Duibne, rulers of the Dingle peninsula from earliest record times until the 12th century and after. – There are different readings of the inscription.
Title: CIIC 156 (Richard Brash, 1879)
Credit: Brash, Richard Rolt (d. 1876), The Ogam inscribed Monuments of the Gaedhil in the British Islands. With a Dissertation on the Ogam Character. Ed. by George M. Atkinson. London: George Bell, 1879. Scan downloaded from TITUS Ogamica and converted to PNG.
Author: Brash, Richard Rolt (1817–1876)
Permission: PD-ART
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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