GALPR/9

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1949:859
Site:GALPR
Discovery:arch excav, 1935 Kendrick, T.D.
History:Found by T.D. Kendrick during his excavations of the priory.
Geology:
Dimensions:0.14 x 0.19 x 0.06 (converted from Macalister/1949)
Setting:unattch
Location:on site
Macalister/1949, 72: `in an out-house near the gate-lodge'.
Form:fragment
Condition:frgmntry , poor
Folklore:none
Crosses:none
Decorations:no other decoration

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Inscriptions


GALPR/9/1     Pictures

Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1949):LECGURGEN
Expansion:
LEC GURGEN
Translation:
Stone of Gurgen
Macalister/1949 75, Plate XXXV reading only

Notes

Orientation:Indeterminate
Position:n/a ; broad ; inc ; undivided
Incision:inc
Date:None published
Language:Goidelic (rbook)
Ling. Notes:none
Palaeography:CISP: The lettering is half-uncial. The first E is in the open uncial form and the second in the closed minuscule form. The Gs are half-uncial as is the R. The N is minuscule with splayed ascenders and the U has a flat bottom.
Legibility:poor
Macalister/1949, 75: `The last letter might have been R, and as the edge of the stone is broken immediately after it, it is not necessarily the final letter of the inscription'.

Lines:1
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

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