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{{short description|5th century memorial on the Isle of Man}}
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{{Contains special characters|Ogham}}{{Infobox Ogham inscription
|name=Knock y Doonee Ogham Stone
|image=
|ciic=CIIC 500
|cisp=ANDRS/1
|country=[[Isle of Man]]
|region=[[Andreas (parish)|Andreas]]
|city=Originally Knoc-y-doonee, currently [[Manx Museum]], [[Douglas, Isle of Man|Douglas]]
|produced=5th Century
|dimensions=1.75m high, 43cm wide, 20cm thick
|text_ogham=ᚐᚋᚁᚔᚉᚐᚈᚑᚄ ᚋᚐᚊᚔ ᚏᚑᚉᚐᚈᚑᚄ
|text_native=AMBICATOS MAQI ROCATOS
|text_english=Ambicatos, son of Rocatos
|text_latin=AMMECATI FILIUS ROCATI HIC IACIT
}}
The '''Knock y Doonee Ogham Stone''' is an early medieval memorial stone with inscriptions carved in [[Latin script|Latin]] and [[Ogham]].<ref name="imuseum">{{Cite web | title=Knock y Doonee Ogham Stone | url=http://www.imuseum.im/search/collections/places/mnh-site-213662.html | website=iMuseum | publisher=Manx National Heritage | access-date=16 December 2019 }}</ref>
== History ==
The stone was discovered in 1911 during the excavation of a chapel at [[Knock y Doonee]] in the parish of [[Andreas (parish)|Andreas]] on the [[Isle of Man]].<ref name="imuseum" /><ref name="cisp">{{Cite web | title=CISP: ANDRS/1 | url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/cisp/database/stone/andrs_1.html | website=Celtic Inscribed Stones Project | publisher=Department of History and the Institute of Archaeology at the University College London | access-date=16 December 2019 }}</ref> A Viking boat burial was later discovered at this site in 1927, one of the two that have been excavated on the Isle of Man. The other is at [[Balladoole]].<ref>{{Cite news|date=22 October 2016|title=Viking life explored at Valhalla exhibition in Peel|work=BBC Isle of Man|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-37606469|access-date=21 November 2020}}</ref>
The stone was later moved to [[Castle Rushen]], and by 1945 it had been moved to its current location at the [[Manx Museum]] in [[Douglas, Isle of Man|Douglas]] where it has the catalogue number "MM 5". The stone is made from 'clay slate', and is believed to have originated from hills six miles to the south of the site where it was found.<ref name="cisp" /> It has the designation CIIC 500 in [[R. A. Stewart Macalister]]'s ''Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum'' (1945).
== Inscription ==
The Latin and Ogham inscriptions are dated to the 5th or early 6th century, and both commemorate a person named Ammecatus son of Rocatus. The Latin inscription reads ''Ammecati filius Rocati hic iacit'' ("Ammecatos son of Roactus lies here"), but the Ogham inscription is damaged and cannot be read with certainty. [[R. A. Stewart Macalister|Macalister]] reads the Ogham inscription as ''Ebicatos maqi Rocatos'' (Ebicatos son of Rocatos), whereas K. H. Jackson reads the first name as either "Imbicatos" or "Ambicatos". The names Ammecatus (or Ambicatos) and Rocatus (or Rocatos) are both [[Celtic languages|Celtic]], but it is unclear whether they are [[Primitive Irish|Irish]] or [[Brittonic languages|Brittonic]]. The element ''catos'' in both names means "battle".<ref name="cisp"/>
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==External links==
* [https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/knock-y-doonee-ogham-stone-manx-cross-5-bc1be376180c4d118d964bdfcd9b06a3 Interactive 3D model of Knock y Doonee Ogham Stone]
[[Category:Ogham inscriptions]]
[[Category:History of the Isle of Man]]
[[Category:5th-century inscriptions]]
[[Category:6th-century inscriptions]]
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