Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1949:577 Petrie/1878:69 |
Site: | DUNER |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1761 Harris, W. |
History: | Macalister/1949, 30: `Now lost, and known only from a note, in the handwriting of Walter Harris (1676-1761), the editor of Ware's works, preserved in Armagh Public Library'. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 (Unknown) |
Setting: | Lost (present 1761, missing 1949) |
Location: | Macalister/1949, 30, notes that a Walter Harris (d. 1761), was the last person to see the stone. Macalister/1949, 30: `now lost'. |
Form: | cross-slab Macalister/1949, 30, comments on the sketch reproduced by Petrie/1878, Fig. 77a: `It shews us a slab'. |
Condition: | inc , inc |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: inc; inc; ind; inc; ind; ind; ind; ind; ind |
Decorations: | Macalister/1949, 30, noted the current condition of the inscribed cross: `nothing but the sinister side and the central expansion was left'.
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Petrie, G. (1878): | O~R~AR || SUIB[NE] Expansion: OROIT AR SUIB[NE] Translation: Pray for Suibne. Petrie/1878 69, Fig. 77a reading only |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1949): | O~R~A~R~ || SUIB[NE] Expansion: OROIT AR SUIB[NE] Macalister/1949 30 reading only |
Orientation: | Indeterminate |
Position: | inc ; broad ; beside cross ; ind |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | CISP: The inscription is a mixture of decorative capitals and Insular half-uncial. The alpha and the maria and m(...) are most clearly in decorative capitals, while the Ih(esus) is in half-uncial. The 'epitaph' itself is in Insular half-uncial, although the decorative capital M from Maria is repeated. This letter has a horizontal stroke which bisects the ascenders of the M. The D has an ascender which bends to the left over the bow, the R is majuscule, and the L is curved. The nomini sacri and the OR have contraction marks over them. |
Legibility: | inc |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | n |
Doubtful: | no |