LFAEL/1

Corpus Refs:Nash-Williams/1950:10
Site:LFAEL
Discovery:in/on structure, 1802 Skinner, J.
History:Skinner/1802, 42, identifies the stone as serving as the lintel of a window in a barn.

Williams/1945, 24, notes that it is still acting as a lintel of barn window.

Miller/1979, 6, however, notes it as lost.

Geology:
Dimensions:0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 (Unknown)
Setting:in struct
Location:on site
Form:plain
Condition:incomplete , poor
Folklore:none
Crosses:none
Decorations:no other decoration

References


Inscriptions


LFAEL/1/1     Pictures

Readings

Skinner, (1802):MAILIS
Expansion:
MAILIS
Radford, C.A.R. (1937):M/AILIS
Expansion:
MAILIS
Radford/1937b civ reading only
Nash-Williams, V.E. (1950):MAILIS
Expansion:
MAILIS
Translation:
(The stone of) Mail (?PN).
CISP (1998):M/AILIS{I}
Expansion:
MAILISI
Translation:
Of Mailis[-] (PN).
Edwards/1986 23 reading only

Notes

Orientation:vertical down
Position:inc ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated
The inscription runs down the middle of the stone.
Incision:inc
Date:400 - 533 (Nash-Williams/1950)
Nash-Williams/1950, 55, dates this provsionally to the fifth or sixth century on palaeographical grounds.
400 - 499 (Jackson/1953)
Jackson/1953, 329 n.1: Lettering suggests 5th century
400 - 499 (Radford/1937b)
Dated from letter forms.
Language:name only (rcaps)
Ling. Notes:The name appears to have a Latin genitive ending.
Palaeography:Nash-Williams/1950, 55: `Roman capitals. 5th--6th century AD'.

The inscription is in standard capitals. It has a ligatured M/A, the A of which has a flat cross-bar, an L with an oblique base-line under the following I, and a horizontal -I at the end. The vertical I's have no cross-bars and the S is upright.

Legibility:good
Lines:1
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

Names

References