| Corpus Refs: | Huebner/1876:83 Macalister/1945:361 Nash-Williams/1950:140 |
| Site: | CNWYL |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1694 Morgan, T. |
| History: | In 1694 this stone was said to be on Maes Llanwrthwl, or Pant y Polion, in Cynwyl Gaeo parish, `at the post house in Llandovery'. Westwood/1856, 252, states that the stone was by then at Dolau Cothy House. Anon/1919, no. VI, states that the stone remained there until 1919, when it was given by Lady Hills-Jones to the Carmarthenshire Museum on condition that it did not leave the county. The stone is still at the Carmarthenshire Museum. |
| Geology: | |
| Dimensions: | 0.53 x 0.47 x 0.06 (converted from Nash-Williams/1950) |
| Setting: | in display |
| Location: | National Museum of Wales (Cat: Cast no. 14.306/16) The stone is now in the Carmarthenshire Museum. |
| Form: | plain Nash-Williams/1950, 109: `Upper portion of a rough pillar stone'. |
| Condition: | incomplete , some Most of what survives is in good condition, although some damage has occurred to the first line of text. RCAHMW/1917, no. 119, quotes a letter dated 1694 to Edward Lhuyd, in which the stone is described as being about `four foot high above ground, and a foot and a half broad'. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | no other decoration |
| Saunders, E. (1694): | TALO[R]{I} | ADVEN[T]{I} | MAQU[ERIG]{I} | FILIU[S] Expansion: TALORI ADVENTI MAQUERIGI FILIUS Macalister/1945 345--346 concise discussion |
| Rhys, J. (1873): | TALO[R{I}] | ADVEN[T{I}] | MAQU[ERIG{I}] | FILIU[S] Expansion: TALORI ADVENTI MAQUERIGI FILIUS Translation: Talori (PN), son of Adventus Maqerigius (PN). Expansion: TALORI ADVENTI MAQERIGI FILIUS Translation: Talori Adventi (PN) son of Maquerigi (PN) Anon/1919a no. VI reading only Rhys/1873 7 reading only |
| Westwood, J.O. (1876): | TALOR{I} | ADVENT{I} | MAQVERAG{I} | FILIVS Expansion: TALORI ADVENTI MAQVERAGI FILIVS Westwood/1876 81 reading only |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | TALO[R{I}] | ADVEN[T{I}] | MAQV[ERIG{I}] | FILIVS Expansion: TALO[RI] ADVEN[TI] MAQV[ERIGI] FILIV[S] Macalister/1945 345--346 reading only Thomas/1994 95 reading only |
| Nash-Williams, V.E. (1950): | TALOR[{I}] | ADVEN[T{I}] | MAQV[ERIG{I}] | FILIVS Expansion: TALOR[I] ADVENT[I] MAQV[ERIGI] FILIVS Translation: (The stone) of Talorius Adventus (PN) son of Maquerigius (PN). Expansion: TALOR[I] ADVENT[I] MAQV[ERIGI] FILIVS Translation: Talori(x) (PN) son of Adventus Maquerigius (PN) (lies here). Nash-Williams/1950 109 reading only |
| Orientation: | vertical down |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated Nash-Williams.1950, 109: `in four lines reading vertically downwards (?)'. Thomas/1994, 96, suggests that this inscription might have been horizontally inscribed. The inscription fills most of the surviving piece of stone. |
| Incision: | incised Nash-Williams/1950, 109: `fairly thinly incised'. Macalister/1945, 345: `The lettering...was boldly cut on the face'. |
| Date: | 500 - 599 (Nash-Williams/1950) |
| Language: | Latin (rcaps) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | Nash-Williams/1950, 109: `Roman capitals...with half-uncial Q and horizontal final -Is...the T is clubbed; the As have the angular cross-bar; the stem of the E is prolonged top and bottom'. The top bar of the F slopes upwards and the bottom bar slopes downwards. |
| Legibility: | poor Macalister/1945, 345--346: `The lettering...[is] now worn...[and] the whole sinister side of the inscription has been broken away'. The letters, as they survive, appear quite clear, however, except for the last two of the first line which have been badly damaged. |
| Lines: | 4 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |
Nash-Williams/1950, 109, saw TALORI as from TALORIX.
Jackson/1953, does not discuss this stone, thereby implying that he did not think the name British.