| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1945:416 Nash-Williams/1950:278 |
| Site: | LLNDG |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1694 Lhuyd, E. |
| History: | First mentioned by Lhuyd in his Parochialia, c. 1694 (Lhwyd/1910, 96). |
| Geology: | |
| Dimensions: | 1.98 x 0.33 x 0.23 (converted from Macalister/1945) |
| Setting: | in struct |
| Location: | earliest Lhuyd/1910, 96: `Above Llandanwg Chancel window, Merionydh'. Nash-Williams/1950, 169: `Inside church, built into E. window of chancel as lintel'. |
| Form: | plain Nash-Williams/1950, 169: `Rough pillar-stone'. |
| Condition: | incomplete , some Macalister/1945, 392: `there may be a few inches hidden in the masonry and plaster at both ends of the stone. The surface is very friable and comes off if carelessly touched...The side of the stone turned inward to the wall appears to have been trimmed down, by the masons'. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | no other decoration |
| Lhwyd, E. (1694): | IN EAV V--I | I[..]APP {***} Expansion: n/a Lhwyd/1910 96 reading only |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | IN[.]A/ENVI | TARR[...]RI[.] | [ICIACIT] Expansion: IN[T]AENVI TARR[ONE]RI[S] | [HIC IACIT] Macalister/1945 393 and Fig. concise discussion |
| Nash-Williams, V.E. (1950): | IN[.]ENVI | IARRI[-- | --..CIA[...] Expansion: IN[G]ENVI IARRI[-- HI]C IA[CIT] Translation: The stone of Ingenuus (PN) Iarrus (?) (PN). He lies here. Nash-Williams/1950 169 concise discussion |
| Orientation: | vertical down |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated Nash-Williams/1950, 169: `Latin inscription (partly defaced) in three lines reading vertically downwards (?)'. As the text now is, it is face-up on the stone. |
| Incision: | inc Nash-Williams/1950, 169: `thinly incised in excellent style'. |
| Date: | 400 - 533 (Nash-Williams/1950) |
| Language: | Latin (rcaps) |
| Ling. Notes: | Nash-Williams/1950, 169: `For the double name cf. No. 183'. |
| Palaeography: | Macalister/1945, 393: `The IN is certain, so is NVI. Before NVI is an E, with a sloping stroke before it, its lower end dropping a little below the line of writing. A little study close at hand and from a distance (shielding the eyes from the direct light coming through the window) reveals the cross-stroke of the A, ligatured to the E. The preceding T has flaked away, but the depressions underlying the cut grooves can be traced, and indeed, a process of exclusion shews that no other letter could fill the space and conform to the indications. In the next line the third and fourth letters which have been read as P's, are most certainly R's; they are preceded by TA and followed by a small stroke low down in the line, which examination of the surface shows to be part of the curve of an O. The RI is certain; the NE, so to speak, `form themselves' after the spectator has gazed at the space for a few moments, and they can be identified in a rubbing. The final S was also revealed by rubbing, and then confirmed by examination of the surface. Of the last line, which is trimmed through longitudinally, about half the letters remain. It cannot be satisfactorily determined whether the word was IACIT or IACET, but I incline to the former. The HI is hidden in the masonry, which suggests that in the other two lines there are also two initial letters concealed. Perhaps FILI (ligatured as usual) occupied the space in the second line. There are marks half way down the surface of the stone, some distance from the end of the line of writing: but they are not aligned with the lines of the writing, and I feel sure that at most they are marks left by masons in trimming the stone to a true face'. Nash-Williams/1950, 169: `Roman capitals...in excellent style. Reading uncertain'. |
| Legibility: | poor Lhwyd/1910, Macalister/1949, and Nash-Williams/1950 have moderately different readings. |
| Lines: | 3 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |