BAKIL/1

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1949:1077
Site:BAKIL
Discovery:in/on structure, 1949 Duignan, M.
History:
Geology:
Dimensions:1.22 x 0.61 x 0.13 (converted from Macalister/1949)
Setting:in display
Location:other
Macalister/1949, 195, `...lying neglected in a lonely graveyard, but they have now been put out of reach of footwear by being built into a block of masonry'.
Form:plain
Macalister/1949, 195: `a slab'.
Condition:incomplete , some
Macalister/1949, 195, `in good order, though the edges of the slab are chipped'.
Folklore:none
Crosses:1: inc; outline; ; expanded; circular; inc; none; inc; decorated
Decorations:geometric key pattern

Macalister/1949, 195, `bearing a four-line cross, the lines grouped two and two with a broad space between them. A circular expansion in the centre, high narrow triangles with surved sides at the terminals, all filled with rather common-place key-patterns'.

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Inscriptions


BAKIL/1/1

Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1949):O~R~ | DOAEIRECH || TANE
Expansion:
OROIT DO AEIRECHTANE
Macalister/1949 195 reading only

Notes

Orientation:Incomplete Information
Position:n/a ; broad ; beside cross ; separated
Macalister/1949, 195: `...the first two letters in the upper sinister canton, the last four in the upper dexter, the remainder in the lower sinister: the lower dexter is blank'.
Incision:inc
Date:None published
Language:Goidelic (rbook)
Ling. Notes:none
Palaeography:none
Legibility:good
Macalister/1949, 195: `The inscription is in good order...The final E is worn and needs close examination to identify it: the preceding N is shaped rather like an H. There is an appearance as of an O preceding the T, but I rejected it as illusory'.
Lines:2
Carving errors:n
Doubtful:no

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