1899.] 



on Runic and Ogam Characters, etc. 



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the ogam scores represent a Gaelic inscription, and in that case 

 the maqiu rini is properly taken as " son of Kin," or Eun, the 

 latter a very well-known name. 



The ogams read only too clearly Sfaqquci Blaqi Qici, and " the 

 memorial of Sfaqquc, son of Qic " does not take us into very intelli- 

 gible regions. 



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Fig. 19. 



20. 



My theory is that we have here an ogam cutter who was only half 

 familiar with the ogam scores, and if he did his best, his best was 

 bad. The labour he expended on making the scores nobly clear had 

 better have been spent on making them correct. The key to my sug- 

 gestion is found in a zigzag scratch which comes before the F in 

 Fanoni, and must represent an S. It is practically the same letter as 

 the S of Sagrani which is found on the back of this same stone. This 



