IONAS/3

Corpus Refs:none
Site:IONAS
Discovery:arch excav, 1976 Redknap, M.
History:Redknap/1976--77, 243, 247, notes that it was found during excavation in front of St Columba's Shrine in 1976, in grave IV.
Geology:Redknap/1976-77, 243: `Carsaig sandstone'.
Dimensions:0.55 x 0.52 x 0.0 (RCAHMS/1982)
Setting:in display
Location:Iona Abbey Museum (Cat: unnumbered)
Fisher/2001, 128: `Abbey Museum, N wall, and detached fragment in store'.
Form:body-slab
RCAHMS/1982, 184: `Fragment of a dressed slab of Carsaig sandstone'.
Condition:frgmntry , some
Folklore:none
Crosses:none
Decorations:

RCAHMS/1982, 184: `It has borne a long-shafted cross within a 50mm border formed by a single incised line. The surviving portion of the shaft is edged by bead-mouldings and the intervening space is slightly sunk'.

References

Inscriptions

IONAS/3/1

Readings

RCHAMS (1982):[-]DOERGUS[-]
Expansion:
[OROIT] DO [F]ERGUS[-
Translation:
A prayer for Fergus(PN).
RCAHMS/1982 184 reading only
Fisher, I. (2001):[…..]DOERGUS
Expansion:
[OROIT] DO FERGUS
Translation:
A prayer for Fergus (PN).
Fisher/2001 128 reading only

Notes

Orientation:vertical down
Position:n/a ; broad ; outside cross ; separated
Redknap/1976-77, 243: `the slab has borne a long-shafted cross within a border consisting of a single incised line'.
Incision:incised
Redknap/1976-77. 243: `incised'.
Date:700 - 899 (RCAHMS/1982)

700 - 799 (Redknap/1976--77)
Language:Goidelic (rbook)
Ling. Notes:none
Palaeography:RCAHMS/1982, 184: `half-uncial'.

Redknap/1976-77, 243: `semi-uncial'.

Redknap/1976-77, 243: `the lettering would most likely belong to the eighth century, but a ninth-century date, though less likely, would not be impossible'.

Legibility:some
The text is clear except for the O of `do' which although faint can still be made out.
Lines:1
Carving errors:
Doubtful:no

Names

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