CLMAC/6

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

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Inscriptions


CLMAC/6/1     Pictures

Readings

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

Notes

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

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