| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1907:148 Macalister/1945:97 |
| Site: | BAHAN |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1846 Jennings, F.M. |
| History: | Macalister/1907, 75: `purchased by Mr. F.M. Jennings in 1846 from the local farmer, and transmitted to the Royal Irish Academy by him'. |
| Geology: | |
| Dimensions: | 0.6 x 0.3 x 0.1 (Power/etal/1997) |
| Setting: | in display |
| Location: | unknown Now in the collection of the Royal Irish Academy. |
| Form: | plain |
| Condition: | incomplete , poor Macalister/1945, 93: `The top of an inscribed stone (according to Brash it was broken off for convenience of carriage!)'. Power/etal/1997, III. 165: `Broken stone'. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | no other decoration |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1907): | [AILE]LLAMAQIVORRTIGURN Expansion: [AILE]LLA MAQI VORRTIGURN Macalister/1907 78--81 reading only |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | --]LLMAQIVORRTIGURN Expansion: --]LL MAQI VORRTIGURN Macalister/1945 93--94 reading only Petrie/1878 259 reading only Power/etal/1997 165 reading only Ziegler/1994 259 reading only |
| Orientation: | vertical up along down |
| Position: | n/a ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated |
| Incision: | cut Macalister/1945, 93: `Inscription in minute scores, like rather straggling knife-cuts'. |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | Goidelic (ogham) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | Macalister/1945, 93: `Inscription in minute scores, like rather straggling knife-cuts,on two angles, up-top-down...This inscription is a palimpsest'. |
| Legibility: | good |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | n |
| Doubtful: | no |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | DIOBI Expansion: DIOBI Macalister/1945 93--94 reading only |
| Orientation: | vertical down |
| Position: | n/a ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated Macalister/1945, 93, sees this as a copy of the original inscription on the stone, overwritten by the --LL MAQIVORRTIGURN. This 'copy' `...has been scratched in minute pin-scrapes on the unoccupied part of the second inscribed angle, perhaps by the representatives of the earlier owner. Of the original text, the initial DI is broken off, but can be restored from the later copy; the O remains, its notches flanking the proximal ends of the 1L; B is a thin scratch between the L's: 2I is at the proximal end of 2L; 2I is between the scores of 2L; 2I was in a (now broken) place before the M; 2I is extinguished by the M; and 2I is between the M and the A, inducing Brash's misreading MOQI. The restoration of the name is legible on the second angle, but of the second I, the first notch alone remains clear: the remaining notches of this letter are rubbed, and are traceable only with difficulty'. |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | name only (ogham) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | none |
| Legibility: | some |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |