CBBRN/1

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1949:555
Petrie/1872:108
Site:CBBRN
Discovery:first mentioned, 1822 Petrie, G.
History:Petrie/1872, 52: `This tombstone was found at Clonburn, near Clonmacnois...and a small sketch of it was made by Dr. Petrie in the year 1822'.

Macalister/1949, 17--18, records the stone as then lying in the graveyard at Clonburren.

Geology:
Dimensions:0.86 x 0.74 x 0.11 (converted from Macalister/1949)
Setting:in ground
Location:earliest
Macalister/1949, 17--18: `lying in the old graveyard of Cloonburren'.
Form:cross-slab
Macalister/1949, 18: `A handsome slab, bottom broken away'.
Condition:incomplete , some
Macalister/1949, 18: `bottom broken away...thickly covered with lichen'.
Folklore:none
Crosses:1: latin; outline; straight; half-round; curved; angular; inner curv; other; decorated
Decorations:geometric spiral

Macalister/1949, 18: `...a six-line cross having an unusually elaborate spiral treatment of the side arms - badly defaced on the sinister side...there is a fret border along the surviving top edge'.

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Inscriptions


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Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1949):ORDOM || AEL[MOCH] | EIRGE
Expansion:
OR DO MAELM[OCH]EIRG[E]
Macalister/1949 18, Plate III reading only

Notes

Orientation:vertical down
Position:inc ; broad ; within quadrants ; quadrant
Macalsiter/1987, 18: `The inscription is on the sinister side, reading downward'.
Incision:inc
Date:None published
Language:Goidelic (rbook)
Ling. Notes:none
Palaeography:CISP: The lettering is Insular half-uncial. The A is the the 'OC' form and the curved L appears to have a wedge-shaped finial. The Rs are majuscule and the Es are in the closed minuscule form, with the first E conjoined with the following L. The D is O-shaped with a short curved stroke to the left from the top left-hand side of the O. The G is half-uncial, and the M has a curved top stroke.
Legibility:some
Macalister/1949, 18: `The stone is now so thickly covered with lichen that the carving is almost invisible'.
Lines:2
Carving errors:n
Doubtful:no

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