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Deborah Hayden @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The wonderful Prof. Barry Lewis @scs-dias.bsky.social @dias.ie delivering the 22nd John V. Kelleher Lecture @harvard.edu this evening on medieval Welsh poets & poetry - an absolutely brilliant start to this year’s Celtic Colloquium! 😀

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My working group on 𝐀𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐂𝐞𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐜 in @scs-dias.bsky.social will commence on 6 October and will continue every Tuesday at 16:00 (local Dunsink Time). If you want to join, in person or via Zoom, please let me know via email.

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Many congratulations to my colleague and friend Prof Raimund Karl (Uni Vienna, formerly Uni Bangor) who last week excavated the first chariot burial in Lower Austria (Eggendorf), and only the fourth in all of Austria. TV report in German at: on.orf.at/video/143399... (starting ca. at 01:00). /1

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Studio 2 vom 21.09.2026

Lebendige Archäologie: Keltische Funde in Eggendorf | Expertengespräch über metastasierten Brustkrebs | Tier der Woche: Unfallkatzen | Gespräch: Schutz der Haustiere im Straßenverkehr | Luka Leben: Vo...

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Lexicon Leponticum @lexiconleponticum.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

... including the Lepontic alphabet, the Greek and Latin ones used for Gaulish, and even – maybe – the Celtiberian and Ogam scripts. I will start weekly posts about this topic and interesting inscriptions in the coming weeks – for now, have this depiction of the pertinently be-anlautet deity Ðirona!

stone from Sept-Fontaines depicting the head of Ðirona, with Latin votive inscription CIL XIII 4498

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Lexicon Leponticum @lexiconleponticum.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Together with @davidstifter.bsky.social, I started at DIAS @scs-dias.bsky.social this week – in my case as one of four O'Donovan scholars. I will be working on Ancient Celtic inscriptions, specifically tau gallicum, its phonetics and its spelling in various scripts used for Celtic languages, ...

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Plans, plans, plans in DIAS: On the one hand, I will use the wonderful opportunity of working in DIAS to finish writing a lot of papers and books that have been piling up on my desk for countless years. More about these things anon. But more concretely for dissemination: In October, I will...

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Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com · 24/08/2026

On this day in antiquity: the final known text in Egyptian hieroglyphs is written down. These two texts from Roman Egypt, written in hieroglyphs and Demotic on the Nile island of Philae, are short, but they nonetheless give us their author's name and their date of creation: August 24th 394 AD.

A crude drawing of the god Mandulis from Hadrian's Gate at Philae, accompanied by a hieroglyphic inscription (above right) and a demotic inscription (lower right)

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Because I happened to see it out in the wild today, I am doing my bit of disciplinary penance If you were good and did your homework, and learned that no Classical authors called people in Ireland and Britain Celts - actually at least one did! We were wrong and are sorry, signed, Celtic Studies

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‘CELTIC BRITAIN’ IN PRE‐ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY, RECONSIDERED

For forty years archaeologists have avoided referring to pre-Roman Britain and its inhabitants as ‘Celtic’ on the grounds that contemporaries never described them as such. This is incorrect. The seco...

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

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

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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · 31/07/2026

This carved stone plaque was found in St Francis' Row in Cashel, and it is believed to be the sign for a tavern that was known as The Cat & Bagpipes, that once stood on the main street. It may date to as early as the 16-17th century, and offers a glimpse of Cashel's social life from centuries ago

A stone carving on a plaque, it features a cat playing the bagpipes.

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Given that Rome often overshadows Greece and Latinization is so frequent, it’s only fair we try to give exact transliterations when rendering Greek names. As they say, an ai for an ae.

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Tom the Scribbler @tomscribbler.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

An exquisitely crafted ceremonial macehead dated to around 3300-2800 BC. Found in Knowth passage tomb in Ireland, It bears spiral motifs similar to those found on the megalithic art surrounding the tomb 📷 my own via Nat Museum of Ireland #findsfriday #Ancientbluesky www.museum.ie/en-IE/collec...

A finely crafted rounded macehead made from cream and brown flint and carved with spiral motifs and ridges

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Thracian language, culture and history: an article for German-readers about the fragmentarily known Thracian language and the Thracians by my Vienna colleague Katsiaryna Ackermann. www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

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Die Thraker: Gold, Gräber und eine geheimnisvolle Sprache

Goldschätze, Königsgräber und wenige rätselhafte Schriftzeugnisse eröffnen faszinierende Einblicke in die Kultur und Sprache eines antiken Volkes

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

During the early Iron Age, the Pomeranian culture in Poland developed distinctive clay vessels for cremated remains, influenced by southern European cultures such as the Etruscans. These urns are characterized by human faces and hat-shaped lids, and are frequently adorned...🧵1/2 📷️me #findsfriday

A clay vessek with a rounded body and a hat-shaped lid, featuring a stylized human face near the top. The face has two small, circular indentations for eyes and a faintly raised nose. The surface is gray and weathered, with incised geometric patterns wrapping around the midsection. Displayed against a dark backdrop in a museum setting.

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School of Celtic Studies - Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh DIAS @scs-dias.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Celtica ar líne Celtica online Celtica 30 (2018), Celtica 31 (2019) ar líne anois / now online. journals.dias.ie/index.php/ce... #DIASdiscovers Cuirtear seaneagráin na hirise ar líne de réir a chéile. We are gradually making the back issues of the journal available online.

Screenshot of the webpage for the journal Celtica, available by clicking link.

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Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com · 13/07/2026

Outside of Roman histories, the great Carthaginian general Hannibal makes a surprise appearance in an Etruscan tomb. This epitaph from the 2nd century BC (for a man who lived to 106!) mentions "hanipaluscle" at the end. Yet, being in Etruscan, we're not sure what this man did for/against Hannibal!

Transcription of an Etruscan epitaph, four lines of black text, written from right to left, taken from Wikimedia Commons

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VIEWS project @viewsproject.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

In case anyone is interested in my directionality research, here is the paper I gave at the recent Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century conference in Reading: youtu.be/jeMAj0gsNYY?...

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Philippa Steele, From linguistic to material approaches: interdisciplinary entanglement…

YouTube video by Yannis Haralambous

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Diario de Navarra @diariodenavarra.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Una inscripción hallada en un resto cerámico de almacenaje del poblado de Irulegi podría ser testimonio del primer numeral vascónico

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Una inscripción hallada en un resto cerámico de almacenaje del poblado de Irulegi podría ser testimonio del primer numeral vascónico

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Aaron Griffith @aaron-griffith.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Guess what? The call for papers for the XVIII Celtic Congress in Salamanca is open! internationalcelticcongresssalamanca.com/index.php/re...

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CALL OF PAPERS | WordPress

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Piers Kelly @pierskelly.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The Origins and Evolution of Writing: A Very Brief Synthesis My talk last week at the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge, for the VIEWS project @viewsproject.bsky.social youtu.be/SRC6QkiKtSo?...

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Piers Kelly: The origins and evolution of writing: a very brief synthesis

YouTube video by Visual Interactions in Early Writing Systems

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Lexicon Leponticum @lexiconleponticum.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

... the stela NO·27, dated to the 2nd century BC and inscribed with the name Komeuios Kalatiknos, that is 'Komeuios, son of Galatos' or possibly even 'son of the Galatian'. (See lexlep.univie.ac.at/wiki/NO%C2%B... for details. Image from Arcà & Rubat Borel in Cisalpine Celtic Literacy 2004.)

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Lexicon Leponticum @lexiconleponticum.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Anyone within travelling distance of Boston should go see Harvard Museums' exhibition "Celtic Art Across The Ages" (harvardartmuseums.org/exhibitions/...) – a unique opportunity to see two original Old Celtic inscription stones in the US. One of them is a relatively recent Cisalpine Celtic find, ...

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Exhibitions, Celtic Art Across the Ages | Harvard Art Museums

Discover the many forms of Celtic creativity and their artistic legacies in this sweeping story that spans ancient to modern times. When you think of the word “Celtic,” what do you picture? Perhaps in...

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

A new book by my colleage (and former student) Stefan Höfler on the Tocharian noun: www.winter-verlag.de/es/detail/97... Stefan Höfler, Das tocharische Nomen. Ein indogermanistisches Arbeitsbuch, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter 2025. €48.

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Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies @dias.ie · 19/03/2026

✨ #28 of #85 Things About DIAS In 1950, Prof. Leo W. Pollak (Director of the School of Cosmic Physics) asked: “Is the Earth Getting Warmer?” He pointed to early climate evidence—shifting fish, melting glaciers—and a growing consensus on global warming. #DIAS85 #85ThingsAboutDIAS #DIASdiscovers

In 1950, Prof Leo W. Pollak, Director of the School of Cosmic Physics gave a public lecture in UCD, entitled ‘Is the Earth Getting Warmer?’

He outlined early evidence of a changing climate, from the effects of warming latitudes on fish migration, to glacier decay, and noted the growing scientific consensus that gloabl warming was underway.

Prof.Pollak even suggested that Irish coastal towns such as Glengariff in West Cork, or Skerries in Dublin might one day replace the seaside resorts of Southern France!

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Nora White @ndefaoite.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Spent a very enjoyable, informative and productive day yesterday experimenting with letter-carving under the superb guidance of stone sculptor and letter-carver Aileen Anne Brannigan. On the EMISoS project, we are analysing the palaeography of early medieval Irish inscriptions on stone monuments but

using a chisel and mallet to carve letters into stone

workbench with stone carved with letters in Insular Irish script

sun shining through window onto work bench with tools, carved stone and rubbing of the carving

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Today's Ancient Celtic Seminar was very exciting. Most of the 3 hours were devoted to the (relatively) recently discovered Cisalpine Celtic rock inscriptions from Carona (Bergamo). We were fortunate that for the past few summers one of the participants, Dr Pietro Giusteri, has been part of... /1

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Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com · 18/02/2026

I didn't expect to have my own name included in @norsebysw.bsky.social's latest online offering, but you'll hear no objection to it from me. Very happy to have been the inspiration for this video on a very slim piece of evidence for runic writing among the Slavs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rZZ...

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Runes on a new find from the Czech Republic

YouTube video by Jackson Crawford

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

🌲2️⃣0️⃣🎁 Cisalpine Celtic literacy Dr Corinna Salomon (Vienna) is an expert on ancient, pre-Roman writing systems in northern Italy (e.g., www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLwT...). She investigated the origin of the runes and contributed to Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum (tir.univie.ac.at/wiki/). 📖

Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum, © Stefan Schumacher et al.

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Joan Ferrer i Jané @joanferrerijane.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Al #ICHB1 vaig presentar amb @eduordunaaznar noves evidències que donen suport a que els numerals ibèrics tenen el valor que es deriva de la seva similitud amb els bascos, afegint proves per a abaŕ (10) i bi (2), cosa que fa que ja tinguem proves per a 7 dels 11 numerals. 1/10

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

🌲1️⃣3️⃣🎁 OG(H)AM The next major international project, short title OG(H)AM, resulted directly from the Digital Gaelic project, again jointly funded by @ukri.org and the IRC (@researchireland.ie). Starting from a collaboration between Dr Nora White (Maynooth) and Prof Katherine Forsyth (Glasgow),… 📖

OG(H)AM – Harnessing Digital Technologies to Transform Understanding of Ogham Writing, from the 4ᵗʰ Century to the 21ˢᵗ project website

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

🌲1️⃣2️⃣🎁 Ancient Celtic languages The Maynooth Department of Early Irish is not only known for its academic expertise in the cultural heritage of medieval Ireland. My other huge interest for more than 30 years has been the ancient Celtic languages of the Continent (Lepontic, Gaulish, Celtiberian). 📖

Ancient Celtic languages and writing © David Stifter after Uderzo & Goscinny

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Kristel Zilmer @kristelzilmer.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

A year ago I wrote about a bilingual runic stick from medieval Oslo in a short thread here: bsky.app/profile/kris... Now you can read more about this find and several others from the medieval park in Oslo in our article.

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Joan Ferrer i Jané @joanferrerijane.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

La setmana que ve, Eduardo Orduña i jo presentarem una comunicació sobre els numerals ibèrics i la seva contribució a la reconstrucció del protobasc al First International Conference on the History of Basque (#ICHB1) a Vitoria (25-27/11). Programa i resums:👇https://sites.google.com/view/ichb1/home

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Samhain night is upon us, and yours truly has been interviewed about it (as if I were an expert) for an article in the Austrian newspaper @derstandard.at. The article even mentions samoni, the Gaulish cognate of Samhain. www.derstandard.at/story/310000... Herzlichen Dank, Reinhard Kleindl.

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 23/10/2025

📰 Whilst searching for the remains of a 400-year-old castle at Derrygonnelly, Northern Ireland, archaeologists have discovered a "mind-blowing" 8,000-year-old Mesolithic settlement! 🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via the BBC www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Derrygonnelly : 'Mind-blowing' discovery of 8,000-year-old settlement

A QUB team was hoping to find the ruins of a castle, but they discovered artefacts dating back to the Mesolithic period.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

A stunning 2,000 year-old Roman blue glass amphoriskos. 📷 Getty Museum www.getty.edu/art/collecti... #Archaeology

Getty Museum photo of a translucent, dark blue, two-handled, glass flask (amphoriskos) against a grey background. The free-blown body is bulbous in shape, with a narrow neck with a flattened rim. The two handles were added afterwards and attach to the body and mouth. The handle on the right has been attached slightly higher up on the body than the other side. Height 10.5 cm. There is some incrustation on the interior of the glass.

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Great publication news! The volume "Écrire sur la pierre en langue gauloise", edited by Dr Coline Ruiz Darasse (Université Bordeaux Montaigne @ubmontaigne.bsky.social), has appeared. It contains my first article in French "La phonologie et la graphie en alphabet grec".

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

#FindsFriday: A #Roman amber flask, from Aquileia, dating 1st/2nd c. AD. Aquileia's position at the end of a main amber trade route resulted in its becoming a centre for the carving and distribution of Baltic amber across the Roman Empire. 📷: Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Aquileia

A flask carved from amber, featuring vertical panels decorated with intricate leaf motifs; the vessel stands on a circular foot and is topped with a stopper. The flask is dramatically lit against a deep black background, highlighting the rich orange-red tones of the amber and the detailed craftsmanship.

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Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com · 17/09/2025

Turning up like a bad penny, I made another appearance on @norsebysw.bsky.social's channel, in which Jackson graciously gives me the space and questions to unpack ideas and info in 'Why Q Needs U'! Also watch me struggle to accept his very nice words about the book. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQMo...

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Why Q Needs U: Danny Bate's new book on the history of the alphabet

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Breaking news: The new, revised, updated Ogham in 3D website is now live: ogham.celt.dias.ie Choose "inscriptions" in the menu.

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

The series of positive news doesn't seem to end today. @bernhardbaver.bsky.social (©📷) informs me that he discovered another brand-new book at the European Celtic Congress in Bonn: Cisalpine Celtic Literacy edited by Corinna Salomon @lexiconleponticum.bsky.social and myself. /1

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Dazzling 2,000 year-old Roman bowl made of translucent amber-coloured glass. Like a bowl full of sunshine! ☀️ Fabulous example of the skill of ancient glassmakers! British Museum 📷 by me www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o... #Archaeology

My photo shows a translucent amber coloured glass bowl with vertical rib decoration around the body with marvered white glass trails. The glass bowl glows in the display lighting as if it contains sunshine which reflects on the surface of the display case. Dimensions: Diameter 9.50 cm x Height 6 cm. On display at the British Museum.

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Lexicon Leponticum @lexiconleponticum.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

See lexlep.univie.ac.at/wiki/VB%C2%B72 and the related pages for details and literature. Photo ©LexLep. The flask is on exhibition in the Museo del Paesaggio – Sezione archeologica ‟Enrico Bianchetti” in Ornavasso.

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Lexicon Leponticum @lexiconleponticum.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Two consecutive names in Celtic inscriptions are usually a name formula with individual name and patronym, but Amaśillū doesn't look like a father's name. It has been suggested that Oledū, written in smaller letters, is the name of another person which was (somewhat sloppily) added at a later point.

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Lexicon Leponticum @lexiconleponticum.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

🏺 The two names ⟨oletu⟩ Ol(l)edū and ⟨amaśilu⟩ Amaśillū are inscribed on the shoulder of a well-preserved flask from the Ornavasso necropolis (Piemonte), dated to 100–50 BC. Both names are etymologically Celtic – Ol(l)edū maybe from ollo- 'great', Amaśillū possibly amb(i)-ađ-illo- (meaning unclear).

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