CLMAC/86

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1909:117
Macalister/1949:682
Petrie/1872:47
Site:CLMAC
Discovery:first mentioned, 1822 Petrie, G.
History:Petrie/1872, 28: `Drawn by Dr. Petrie at Clonmacnois, in the year 1822'.

Recorded as still on site in Macalister/1949, 51.

Geology:
Dimensions:0.76 x 0.51 x 0.11 (converted from Macalister/1949)
Setting:inc
Location:on site
Form:cross-slab
Condition:complete , some
The top of the stone appears to have been lost.
Folklore:none
Crosses:1: latin; outline; straight; expanded; square; angular; inner curv; other; plain
Decorations:frame; geometric key pattern

Macalister/1909, 23, `[A cross] of the Celtic type enclosed in a Greek fret-border. The present example is quadrate, the ends terminating below in spirals enclosing between them a panel containing a knot. The marginal fret is singularly irregular'.

Macalister/1949, 51: `Wheel cross, base ending in spirals, all in a fret border'.

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Inscriptions


CLMAC/86/1     Pictures

Readings

Petrie, G. (1822):OROITARMAELA[N]
Expansion:
OROIT AR MAELA[N]
Petrie/1872 28 reading only
Macalister, R.A.S. (1909):OROITARMAELA[--
Expansion:
OROIT AR MAELA[--
Macalister/1909 23 reading only
Macalister/1949 51 reading only

Notes

Orientation:horizontal
Position:n/a ; broad ; above cross ; undivided
Incision:inc
Date:None published
Language:Goidelic (rbook)
Ling. Notes:none
Palaeography:CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial. The O's are angular and almost lozenge-shaped; the R is majuscule; the A is in the `OC' form and the E is closed.
Legibility:some
Lines:1
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

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