KBRCN/8

Corpus Refs:Higgins/1987:92
Macalister/1949:539
Site:KBRCN
Discovery:first mentioned, 1878 Petrie, G.
History:
Geology:Higgins/1987, 372: `limestone'.
Dimensions:0.82 x 0.32 x 0.12 (Higgins/1987)
Setting:in ground
Location:earliest
Higgins/1987, 372: 'This stone is located within the graveyard at Temple Brecan some distance to the S. E. of Temple Brecan itself, on Inishmore, Aran Islands'.
Form:cross-slab
Condition:complete , good
Folklore:none
Crosses:1: latin; inc; expanded; expanded; curved; none; inner curv; angular; plain
Decorations:

Higgins/1987, 372, comments on the ornament on the arms and ring of the cross: `The head of the cross has rectangular terminals and has three lobes or rolls, one in each of the interspaces between the arm and the ring'.

Macalister/1949, 7--8: `bearing a wheel-cross potent, on a pyramidal base: ornamented rolls projecting into the spaces between the wheel and the side of the cross, three in each canton'.

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Inscriptions


KBRCN/8/1     Pictures

Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1949):TOM || A || SA~P~
Expansion:
TOMAS APOSTOLUS
Expansion:
TOMAS AB
Macalister/1949 8--9 concise discussion
Higgins, J.G. (1987):TOM || A || SA~P~
Expansion:
TOMAS APOSTOLUS
Higgins/1987 372 concise discussion

Notes

Orientation:horizontal
Position:n/a ; broad ; mixed ; separated
Higgins/1987, 372: `The inscription runs horizontally across the slab and cuts across the shaft of the cross'.
Incision:pocked
Higgins/1987, 372: `The whole of the design including the inscription has been executed with a small pocking tool, probably a point'.
Date:None published
Language:Latin (rbook)
Ling. Notes:none
Palaeography:CISP: The lettering is half-uncial. The initial T has a curved ascender and a flat top-stroke. The S is half-uncial, the As minuscule and the M is minuscule with an almost flat single top stroke. The P has a rounded open bow.
Legibility:good
Lines:1
Carving errors:n
Doubtful:no

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