BRHAM/1

Corpus Refs:Cuppage/etal/1986:799
Macalister/1945:175
Site:BRHAM
Discovery:inc, inc
History:
Geology:Macalister/1945, 167: `pulvinar'.
Dimensions:1.02 x 0.38 x 0.33 (converted from Macalister/1945)
Setting:on ground
Location:other
Macalister/1945, 167: `A pulvinar resembling the Ballintaggart group, in the collection brought together by Lord Ventry, and still in the grounds of Burnham: the original provenance is unrecorded'.
Form:Indeterminate
Condition:incomplete , some
Folklore:none
Crosses:none
Decorations:no other decoration

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Inscriptions


BRHAM/1/1     Pictures

Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1945):MAQQIERCCIASMAQQIMUCOIDOVINIA
Expansion:
MAQQI ERCCIAS MAQQI MUCOI DOVINIA
Cuppage/etal/1986 254 minor reference
Macalister/1945 168 concise discussion
Ziegler/1994 266 reading only
McManus, D. (1991):MAQQIERCCIAMAQQIMUCOIDOVINIA
Expansion:
MAQQI-ERCCIAS MAQQI MUCOI DOVINIA
McManus/1991 95 reading only

Notes

Orientation:vertical up down
Position:n/a ; arris ; n/a ; undivided
Incision:inc
Date:None published
Language:Goidelic (ogham)
Ling. Notes:See McManus/1991, 102, 126, 176 note 40.
Palaeography:Macalister/1945, 167--168: `The scores are of small size, those of the vowels and the consonants being of about the same length, and distinguished by position only...The engraver had to reduce his exuberant double consonants toward the end of the inscription for want of space'.
Legibility:poor
Macalister/1945, 167: `The inscription...is worn and hard to read'.

Cuppage et al/1986, 254: `Many of the scores are extremely faint and only the last word can now be traced in full'.

Lines:1
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

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