COLIN/4

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1945:22
Site:COLIN
Discovery:arch excav, 1929 Macalister, R.A.S.
History:Macalister/1945, 26: `Discovered in 1929, in the course of the excavations'.
Geology:Macalister/1945, 26: `Silurian grit'.

Dimensions:1.6 x 0.48 x 0.41 (converted from Macalister/1945)
Setting:in ground
Location:earliest
Macalister/1945, 26--27: `The stone was almost completely buried, and the whole inscription was hidden: it has now been re-erected in the cemetery'.
Form:plain
Condition:inc , inc
Folklore:none
Crosses:none
Decorations:no other decoration

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Inscriptions


COLIN/4/1     Pictures

Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1945):--]EGNIKOIMAQIMUC ||| [OI]A[L]I[NI]
Expansion:
--]EGNI KOI MAQI MUC[OI ]A[L]I[NI]
Macalister/1945 26--27 reading only
Ziegler/1994 254 reading only

Notes

Orientation:vertical up along
Position:n/a ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated
Incision:incised
Macalister/1945, 26--27: `chisel-cut'.
Date:None published
Language:Goidelic (ogham)
Ling. Notes:See McManus/1991, 79.
Palaeography:See McManus/1991, 81.
Legibility:good
Macalister/1945, 26--27: `The scores are chisel-cut, and are in good condition except for wear and some fractures. The beginning is lost...The letters before the present beginning must have been vowels and B consonants, for the H-surface is intact and shows no marking. The stone reads up to the dexter edge as far as the C: after that it turns on to the top. A fracture at the corner has carried off the OI: only A, I, of the second name remain, but the consonants can be restored by considering the positions and widths of the fractures which have destroyed them'.

Lines:1
Carving errors:n
Doubtful:no

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