BAKIL/5

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1949:1081
Site:BAKIL
Discovery:first mentioned, 1949 Duignan, M.
History: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'.
Geology:
Dimensions:0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 (Unknown)
Setting:in struct
Location:on site
Macalister/1949, 196: `fixed at such a height above the ground that it is impossible to take rubbings or measurements'.
Form:cross-slab
Condition:frgmntry , good
Macalister/1949, 196, and Plate V, indicate that only the bottom of the stone remains. This appears, however, to be in reasonably good condition.
Folklore:none
Crosses:1: latin; outline; straight; half-round; ind; angular; ind; half-round; decorated
Decorations:geometric key pattern

Macalister/1949, 196: `A seven-line cross, the lines grouped two-three-two; looped triangular terminals, of which only one, containing a key pattern, remains. The cantons are enclosed within rectilinear marginal framing-lines, the ends of whcih fit into the loops of the terminals'.

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BAKIL/5/1     Pictures

Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1949):--]THIR
Expansion:
[--]THIR
Macalister/1949 196 reading only

Notes

Orientation:vertical down
Position:n/a ; broad ; within quadrants ; quadrant
Incision:inc
Date:None published
Language:name only (rbook)
Ling. Notes:none
Palaeography:Macalister/1949, 196, note 1, states that his drawings are not facsimiles of the stones. All that can be said is that the text is in half-uncial.
Legibility:good
Lines:1
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

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