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LBI Code GALE1_1 Inscription name GALERA 1_1 Site GALE1 Country/Island Fuerteventura/Canary Islands Position (geogr.) Position (UTM) Elevation 520 Direction 180 Inclination Technique scratched Line width 1 Line depth 1 Context on panel Latino-Canary inscription Context on site Latino-Canary and Libyco-Berber inscriptions, ships, linear-geometric Superimpositions no Direction of writing ver Lines 2 Type of rock cliff Deposition basalt Conformation of rock natural cracks Natural defacement dark patina, hardly visible Vandalism no Archaeological context Special conditions high up on a cliff, access by climbing Further comments Date of discovery References León et al. 1988:195
Hernández/Perera 1992:37/c9
Pichler 1993:439/GII4
Pichler 2003a:226/G1
-> Reference detailsEpigraphic comment Transliteration 1: WTH 2: WTH Transcription AWATI cf. Latino-Canary AVATI Translation If TI = Berber "my father" AWA-TI = son of my father (cf. Berberggw-ma = son of my mother) or: AWA-TI = this is my father Comment Nearby inscriptions GALE1_2
GALE1_3
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Reference details hd: Hernandez Diaz, I.; Perera Betancort, M.A. (1992): Los Grabados Rupestres de la Isla de Fuerteventura. Puerto del Rosario, 40p.
lh: León Hernández, J. de et al. (1988): La importancia de las vías metodológicas en la investigación de nuestro pasado, una aportación concreta: Los primeros grabados latinos hallados en Canarias. Tebeto I, 129-201
pi: Pichler, W. (1993): Die Schrift der Ostinseln - Corpus der Inschriften auf Fuerteventura.- Almogaren XXIII, Hallein, 313 – 453
pi: Pichler, W. (1996): Libysch-berberische Inschriften auf Fuerteventura. Almogaren XXVII, Vöcklabruck, 7-83
pi: Pichler, W. (2003): Las inscripciones rupestres de Fuerteventura. Cabildo de Fuerteventura. Puerto del Rosario 2003. 337 p.
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