CLMAC/137

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1909:185
Macalister/1949:733
Petrie/1872:172
Site:CLMAC
Discovery:first mentioned, 1869 Graves, J.
History:Petrie/1872, 74: `Drawn by Miss Boxwell, from stones found at Clonmacnois by the Rev. James Graves, in the year 1869'.

Recorded as still on site in Macalister/1909, 36, and Macalister/1949, 57.

Geology:
Dimensions:0.44 x 0.51 x 0.06 (converted from Macalister/1949)
Setting:inc
Location:on site
Recorded as still on site in Macalister/1949, 57.
Form:cross-slab
Condition:frgmntry , poor
Macalister/1909, 36: `fragment'.
Folklore:none
Crosses:1: inc; inc; straight; ind; ind; none; ind; half-round; decorated
Decorations:geometric key pattern

Macalister/1909, 36: `fragment with looped terminal containing key-pattern'.

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Inscriptions


CLMAC/137/1     Pictures

Readings

Boxwell, Miss (1869):--] | LAI[T]
Expansion:
--]LAIT
Petrie/1872 74 reading only
Macalister, R.A.S. (1909):--] | LAI[G]
Expansion:
--]LAIG
Macalister/1909 36 reading only
Macalister/1949 57 reading only

Notes

Orientation:horizontal
Position:n/a ; broad ; within quadrants ; quadrant
Incision:inc
Date:None published
Language:name only (rbook)
Ling. Notes:none
Palaeography:CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial. The initial L is curved, the A is angular and open-bowed, with an upwards flourish from the bottom right corner and the I is vertical. The final letter was shown in Petrie/1872, Fig. 172, as a half-uncial T, and in Macalister/1909, Plate XXVIII, and Macalister/1949, Plate XXXII, as a half-uncial G.
Legibility:some
The first three of the surviving letters are clear, but the fourth letter is only fragmentary.
Lines:1
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

Names

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