CLMAC/41

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1909:56
Macalister/1949:637
Site:CLMAC
Discovery:first mentioned, 1899 Macalister, R.A.S.
History:Perhaps the stone recorded in Macalister/1899, 118, no. 113.

Recorded as still on site in Macalister/1949, 47.

Geology:
Dimensions:0.71 x 0.66 x 0.06 (converted from Macalister/1949)
Setting:inc
Location:on site
Form:cross-slab
Condition:incomplete , poor
The left side of the stone is broken off just to the left of the upright of the cross, and flaking has also damaged the right hand edge, outside the cross margin, but where some of the inscription lay.
Folklore:none
Crosses:1: equal-armed; outline; straight; expanded; round holl; angular; none; none; decorated
Decorations:

Macalister/1909, 11--12: `Two-line cross potent, with invecked angles; at the centre a crosslet pattee, voided, containing a pellet. Single-line margin'.

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Inscriptions


CLMAC/41/1     Pictures

Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1909):[--]LETHE ||| ECC[--]
Expansion:
--]LETHE ECC[ES][--
Macalister/1909 11--12 reading only
Macalister, R.A.S. (1949):[--]LETHE ||| ECC[...]E[--]
Expansion:
[DUBDA]LETHE ECC[LESI]E [FUNDATOR]
Macalister/1909 11--12 reading only
Macalister/1949 47 reading only

Notes

Orientation:mixed directions
Position:n/a ; broad ; mixed ; separated
The inscription which survives runs along the top and right edge of the cross, outside the margin.
Incision:inc
Date:None published
Language:Indeterminate (rbook)
Ling. Notes:Macalister/1909, 11--12, suggests that ECC might be for ecces, or `poet' giving the language of the inscription as Goidelic.

Macalister/1949, 47, suggests an expansion of ECC as `ecclesie', which would make the language Latin.

Palaeography:CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial. The A is in the `OC' form, the Es are rounded and three-pronged, the S is minuscule and the final L has a wedge-shaped finial atop the ascender.
Legibility:poor
Macalister/1909, 11: `the inscription is so broken as to be unintelligible; it apparently consists of two words'.
Lines:1
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

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