GLEBE/1

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1945:131
Site:GLEBE
Discovery:first mentioned, 1879 Brash, R.R.
History:Macalister/1945, 129, credits Brash/1879, with the first publication of this ogham.
Geology:
Dimensions:1.09 x 0.2 x 0.18 (converted from Macalister/1945, 129)
Setting:in ground
Location:earliest
Macalister/1945, 129: `On the south-east side of the carn'.
Form:plain
Condition:complete , some
Folklore:none
Crosses:none
Decorations:no other decoration

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Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1945):LI[T]UBIRIMAQI || [.]E[.]IA
Expansion:
LI[T]UBIRI MAQI [Q]E[C]IA
Macalister/1945 129--130 reading only
McManus/1991 66 reading only
Ziegler/1994 262 listing

Notes

Orientation:vertical up down
Position:inc ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated
Incision:inc
Date:400 - 700 (Ziegler/1994)
Based on linguistics of the names (Ziegler/1994, 194, 220; zeitstufe I--III).
Language:Goidelic (ogham)
Ling. Notes:See McManus/1991, 117, 120.
Palaeography:none
Legibility:poor
Macalister/1945, 129--130: `now much worn and chipped. The T is fractured. The H-surface of the sinister angle is chipped away leaving nothing but the vowels: the Q and C are here supplied from a consideration of the spaces which they occupied. No trace of lettering survives on the B-surface of the second angle'.
Lines:2
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

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