Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:263 Macalister/1949:799 Petrie/1872:171 |
Site: | CLMAC |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1822 Petrie, G. |
History: | Petrie/1872, 74: `Drawn by Dr. Petrie at Clonmacnois, in the year 1822'. Macalister/1899, 116, records the stone as lost, as does Macalister/1909, 48, and Macalister/1949, 64. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 (Unknown) |
Setting: | Lost (present 1822, missing 1872) |
Location: | Recorded in Petrie/1872, 73, as extant in 1822 and as lost in 1872. Macalister/1899, 116, records the stone as lost, as does Macalister/1909, 48, and Macalister/1949, 64. |
Form: | cross-slab |
Condition: | frgmntry , inc Macalister/1949, 64: `Lower half only'. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: latin; interlace; straight; half-round; circular; ind; ind; half-round; decorated |
Decorations: | Macalister/1909, 48: `Lower part of a seven-line cross with expanding looped terminals, more than semi-circular'. |
Petrie, G. (1822): | [--] || ORIACAN | [--] || CORIP~ Expansion: [OROIT D]O RIACAN[-- Translation: Pray for Riacan, Bishop. Petrie/1872 74, Plate LXXII, Fig. 175 reading only |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1909): | [O~R~D]ORIACAN[--]ICORIP[-- Expansion: [OROIT][ D]O RIACAN[--]ICORIP[-- Macalister/1909 48 reading only |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1949): | ORIACAN[M]CORIP~ Expansion: ORIACAN[M]CORIP~ Macalister/1949 64 reading only |
Orientation: | horizontal |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; beside cross ; separated |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | CISP: Given the difference between Petrie's published drawing and reading it would be unwise to give a palaeographic desciption of this inscription. It does, however, appear to have been in Insular half-uncial. |
Legibility: | inc Petrie/1872, 74, and Plate LXXII, Fig.171, provide different readings of this inscription without passing comment on the differences between figure and transcription. |
Lines: | 2 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |