CLMAC/12

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1909:12
Macalister/1949:608
Petrie/1872:145
Site:CLMAC
Discovery:first mentioned, 1822 Petrie, G.
History:Petrie/1872, 65: `Drawn by Dr. Petrie at Clonmacnois, in the year 1822'.

Macalister/1909, 3: `The stone seems to have suffered since 1822'.

Macalister/1949, 44, records the stone as still on site.

Geology:
Dimensions:0.61 x 0.43 x 0.07 (converted from Macalister/1949)
Setting:inc
Location:on site
Form:name-slab
Condition:incomplete , some
Macalister/1909, 3: `much injured by flaking...the stone seems to have suffered since 1822, when Petrie drew it...;he does not show the fractured edge so near the concluding I, and does not indicate the flaking'.

The stone is broken off at the right edge leaving the original length of the stone and inscription uncertain.

Folklore:none
Crosses:none
Decorations:no other decoration

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Inscriptions


CLMAC/12/1     Pictures

Readings

Petrie, G. (1822):DAIGREI
Expansion:
DAIGREI
Translation:
Of Daigre (PN).
Petrie/1872 65 reading only
Macalister, R.A.S. (1909):DAIGRE[I]
Expansion:
DAIGRE[I]
Macalister/1909 3 reading only
Macalister/1949 44, Plate X reading only

Notes

Orientation:Incomplete Information
Position:n/a ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated
Incision:inc
Date:None published
Language:name only (rbook)
Ling. Notes:none
Palaeography:CISP: The inscription is half-uncial. The D has an ascender which bends to the left over an open heart-shaped bow; the A is in the `OC' form; the R is majuscule and the E is closed.
Legibility:poor
Macalister/1909, 3: `inscription...much injured by flaking around the edges of the inscription'. The inscription also breaks off at the right-hand edge.
Lines:1
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

Names

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