Read the stone from the bottom to the top if it's vertical. If the Ogham stone sits vertically in the ground, start on the bottom and work your way to the top. Look for the lowest mark available and work your way up.
Can we read Ogham?
The Ogham stones refer to stone monuments inscribed with messages from ancient Celtic tribes. The messages are all in Ogham, which is the earliest form of Irish language. ... Unless you're fluent in ancient forms of Gaelic, reading the stones will prove fairly difficult.
Is Ogham written vertically?
CQ: Ogham, quite delightfully, is one of the few alphabets written and read vertically from the bottom to the top. Its twenty letters, called feda (= 'trees'), group into four aicme (= 'family, tribe') of five letters each.26 abr 2017
What do Ogham stones say?
Ogham Stones on the Dingle Peninsula The inscriptions can signify a single name, or a phrase such as 'X son of Y of the family of Z', but sometimes a little more detail is added. The inscriptions can date from the end of the 4th up to the early 8th century AD.
Is Ogham written left to right?
The text of these "Orthodox Ogham" inscriptions is read beginning from the bottom left-hand side of a stone, continuing upward along the edge, across the top and down the right-hand side (in the case of long inscriptions).