With 396 letters grouped in 47 words, it is the third-longest extant text in Gaulish (the curse tablet from L'Hospitalet-du-Larzac and the Coligny calendar being longer), giving it great importance in the study of this language.

[2] andedion uediiumi dijiuion ri sun artiu mapon aruerriiatin lopites snieððdic sos brixtia anderon clucion floron nigrinon adgarion aemili on paterin claudion legitumon caelion pelign claudío pelign marcion uictorin asiatI con aððedilli etic secoui toncnaman toncsiiontío meion ponc sesit bue tid ollon reguccambion exsops pissiiumi tsoccaanti rissu ison son bissiet lugedessummiiis luge dessumíis lugedessumiis luxe It seems to begin: Then probably: But Colera interprets the sequence ri sun/artiu as an instrumental noun phrase: "by means of a magic script"; and brixtia anderon as "by the magic of the subterraneans."

It concludes with the thrice repeated incantation luge-dessumíis "serving (the god) Lug", which is paralleled in an Old Irish inscription written in Ogam script, LUGU-DECCAS.

[9] In line 4, ad-garion may refer to a "speaker" for the men listed, if related to Old Irish gairid "he calls," perhaps a calque here of Latin ad-vōcātus.

"[16] The Swiss folk metal band Eluveitie used the text for their song Dessumiis Luge, and the first two verses for Spirit.