Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:6 Macalister/1949:602 Petrie/1872:93 |
Site: | CLMAC |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1872 Graves, J. |
History: | Petrie/1872, 46, `Drawn by M[argaret] S[tokes] from a rubbing taken by the Rev. James Graves and Mr Hennessy'. Macalister/1949, 43, records the stone as still on site. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 0.25 x 0.29 x 0.03 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
Setting: | inc |
Location: | on site |
Form: | Indeterminate |
Condition: | incomplete , poor |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | none |
Decorations: | no other decoration |
Petrie, G. (1872): | [O]RDOMA/EL | [..]RIGG Expansion: [O]ROIT DO MAEL[CI]RIGG Petrie/1872 45--46 reading only |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1909): | [..]DOM{A}/EL | [--]RIGG Expansion: [OROIT] DO MAEL[FIT]RIGG Translation: A prayer for Mael-Fithrigg (PN). Macalister/1909 2 reading only Macalister/1949 43 reading only |
Orientation: | horizontal |
Position: | n/a ; n/a ; n/a ; undecorated |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial. The D has an ascender which bends to the left over the bow; the R is in majuscule; the A in the first line has an accent mark over it and it is also ligatured with the following E. |
Legibility: | poor The first letter is an R but only part of it survives, while the end of the first line breaks off leaving half of the L, the second line ends in RIGG, but we cannot know what, or how much, came before. |
Lines: | 2 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |