Another pièce trouvée from the Kärnten Museum, serendipitously topical for #Odyssey: a vintage poster for a 1997 exhibition of the illustrations of the tale by Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980). Incidentally, currently on display in Montreux: www.montreuxriviera.com/de/E212011/d... (until Sunday).

Cuimhneacháin eile ó Mhusaem Kärnten: dorus le fógra coisc ar iontrál i dtrí theanga is tríocha, an Ghaeilge ina measc.

...erected a tombstone for his son Excingomarus ("big in foot-soldiers"). In ILLPRON 75 (CIL 3,6517), Adnamus ("towards the enemy") son of Tertius ("third") and his wife Deuignata ("god-born") daughter of Tituco are mentioned. Later, the names of their children Adnamatus and Siora were added.

...of Celtic names on Roman tombstones. Although most of the names are still mediterranean, I took pictures of 2 particularly nice examples with Celtic names. On ILLPRON 781, a father with the prototypically Gaulish name Excingo ("foot-soldier one"), son of Magiouindus (prps. "big & fair"),...

Another highlight from the Kärnten Museum in Klagenfurt: the 2 walls with Roman imperial inscriptions, from all over the province of Noricum, & many from the huge Roman city of Virunum. As P. Sims-Williams has pointed out, Noricum stands out in ancient epigraphy by having a very high percentage...

Here's me studying the inscription 22 years ago. A deep-dive in personal history... 😅

It was disappointed to see that the most exciting item is no longer on public display in the Museum: the Grafenstein tile, the only Celtic inscription on instrumentum from Austria. I had the opportunity to study the tile in 2004 and published an edition in 2009 in: www.academia.edu/19947178/Ver...

A hoard find of early silver coins with possibly Celtic or Venetic names, partly in Venetic script. Some of them bear the legend COppOV in a mix of Latin letters (here in capitals) and North-Italic P (here in minuscule). I mentioned these coin legends briefly in: www.academia.edu/19947321/Neu...

And these Venetic bronze plaquettes from the Gurina. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurina

I visited the Carinthian Museum in Klagenfurt last week to re-visit, after a long time, some of the treasures they have there, such as these reproductions of the Venetic rock inscriptions from Würmlach in the Gail Valley. More info at Uni Erat Lupa: lupa.at/12954

Live from the National Eisteddfod in Wales, a truly Welsh Ogham beer. Simon Rodway, who sent me this picture, confirms that the beer is actually quite decent.

I know that there are many rabbits in the South Campus of @maynoothuniversity.ie, but this is the first that I have seen on the North Campus. Usually they are out at dusk or dawn, but this was out in the middle of the afternoon.

She mentions it briefly in the appendix.

Modern og(h)am of the day by Welsh artist Mary Lloyd Jones, kindly shared by Simon Rodway (@aberuni.bsky.social), & found in an exhibition about the painter in @librarywales.bsky.social. This is a particularly multilingual treat, reading Welsh IAITH below & Breton IEZH (= yezh) "language" above.

Although it is primarily meant as a companion for roleplaying storytellers, its up-to-date rigour is nothing short of a true academic introduction. And what's not to like about a book that begins like this [see image]? See also the announcement of the award on 8 July at bsky.app/profile/davi... /2

It's a day of books today. Almost a month after the OG(H)AM project awarded its Og(h)am Achievement Award to "Carved in Stone. A Storyteller's Guide to the Picts", my copy arrived in the bookshop today. Wow! I can only say that this is a model of how to write a book about a pre-modern society. /1

Publication alert at @scs-dias.bsky.social: Malacha McKenna, The Irish of Rann na Feirste Co. Donegal: A Phonemic System, @dias.ie 2026. Available at a reduced introductory price now: shop.dias.ie/product/the-...

The book is very lovingly and carefully done; the print quality is superb.

This came in just now with the post. Michael Potterton (ed.), Moynagh Lough Studies 1, Four Courts Press 2026 Very beautifully done. Includes my article on the Moynagh Lough ogham inscription on a portable object. Pre-print: www.academia.edu/171047177/Th...

Many thanks to @stiofanob.bsky.social who sent me these picture for the #Ogham of the Day from a pub on Cléire (Cape Clear Island, Co Cork), where he was teaching in the Summer College (not in the pub, of course!). The oghams say Ir. PIONTA and Engl. PINTS.

One for the diary: Nauigatio Sancti Brendani: a European Odyssey A day of talks and events to celebrate a medieval Irish bestseller. @scs-dias.bsky.social @dias.ie Thursday, 24th September 2026 In celebration of the launch of shop.dias.ie/product/navi.... More details to follow.

𝗗𝗶Ⓐ𝗴𝗻𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 39 At the moment, the preparations for the complex move of the DiⒶgnostic project from Maynooth University to @scs-dias.bsky.social @dias.ie are taking up a lot of our time. The project has to formally change its institutional affiliation, which requires signatures and stamps... /1

...Classics there, we know each other very well. In 1995 (just a few weeks before I started learning Old Irish), I went with him and a few colleagues to Berlin to celebrate 200 years of the publication of Friedrich August Wolf's "Prolegomena ad Homerum", a milestone in the critical study of... /2

...me to the article "Luwians, Lydians, Etruscans, and Troy: the linguistic landscape of Northwestern Anatolia in the pre-classical period" (2022) by @alwinkloekhorst.bsky.social (at scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/handle/1887/...), in which he argues that the language of the Troas... /2

Something noteworthy today...

I had the pleasure to represent the research in the Dept. of Early Irish @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @muahi.bsky.social, distilled into a compact informationposter, at the Arqus Alliance Conference in @maynoothuniversity.ie today. Thanks Daniel Bălteanu for the photo.

See also the OG(H)AM project's blog post: ogham.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/og...

...informed illustrations spread out across clean, easy-to-navigate layouts. At the same time, Carved in Stone provides concise guidance on how to use the og(h)am script, not only giving historically accurate but also imaginative yet practical ideas on how to apply it in modern contexts.

Carved in Stone is a comprehensive setting guide to early medieval Pictish society. It provides a summary of functional information essential for a storyteller to help players visualise themselves in the world of a 7th-century Pict. It’s part visual encyclopaedia, with over 350 historically...

It's the International Day of Ogham today. The (former) OG(H)AM project are happy to announce the recipients of this year's Certificate of Achievement for Ogham Excellence, the team behind the creation of "Carved in Stone. A Storyteller's Guide to Pictland". More: carvedinstone.scot #IntDayofOgham