CLMAC/43

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1909:58
Macalister/1949:639
Site:CLMAC
Discovery:first mentioned, 1898 Macalister, R.A.S.
History:First recorded in Macalister/1899, no. 107.

Macalister/1949, 47: `I did not find this stone on my last visit'.

Geology:
Dimensions:0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 (Unknown)
Setting:Lost (present 1901, missing 1905)
Location:Macalister/1909, 12, states that the stone was missing by the time of his third visit to Clonmacnoise in 1905, implying that it had been there during his second and probably first visits.
Form:cross-slab
Condition:complete , some
Folklore:none
Crosses:1: equal-armed; outline; straight; other; circular; angular; inner curv; none; decorated
Decorations:

Macalister/1909, 12: `Four-line cross in a three-line margin; a single-line circle round the centre of the cross. In the middle a voided lozenge containing a pellet. Internal intersections mitred; spaces between the cross and the circle voided'.

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Inscriptions


CLMAC/43/1     Pictures

Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1901):GAESCEL
Expansion:
GAESCEL
Macalister/1909 12 reading only
Macalister/1949 47 reading only

Notes

Orientation:horizontal
Position:n/a ; broad ; below cross ; separated
The inscription is outside the margins and below the cross.
Incision:inc
Date:None published
Language:name only (rbook)
Ling. Notes:none
Palaeography:CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial. The A's are in the `OC' form; rounded E, minuscule S, half-uncial G and possible wedge-shaped finial atop the ascender of the L.
Legibility:good
Lines:1
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

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