GLEND/3

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1949:879
Petrie/1878:68
Site:GLEND
Discovery:first mentioned, 1878 Petrie, G.
History:Petrie/1878, 60: `Drawn by Dr. Petrie from the stone, but in what year is not mentioned'.

Macalister/1949, 82: `now lost'.

Geology:Macalister/1949, 82: `mica slate'.
Dimensions:0.0 x 0.71 x 0.0 (converted from Macalister/1949)
Setting:Lost (present 1878, missing 1949)
Location:Macalister/1949, 82, notes that the stone had been drawn by Petrie, but that it was now lost.
Macalister/1949, 82: `A slab of mica slate...found and drawn by Petrie in the `Great Cemetery' of Glendaloch, but now lost'.
Form:name-slab
Condition:frgmntry , n/a
Folklore:none
Crosses:none
Decorations:no other decoration

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Inscriptions


GLEND/3/1

Readings

Petrie, G. (1878):--]AIGEN
Expansion:
--]AIGEN
Macalister/1949 82 reading only
Petrie/1878 60, Plate XXXIII, Fig. 68 concise discussion

Notes

Orientation:Not Applicable
Position:n/a ; inc ; n/a ; undecorated
Incision:inc
Date:None published
Language:name only (rbook)
Ling. Notes:none
Palaeography:CISP: The lettering is Insular half-uncial. The A is in the 'OC' form, the G is half-uncial and the minuscule N has a flat top. The E is damaged and could be in either the open uncial form or the closed minuscule form.
Legibility:poor
Lines:1
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

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