Corpus Refs: | Cuppage/etal/1986:807(2) Macalister/1945:191 |
Site: | LUGUL |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1879 Brash, R.R. |
History: | |
Geology: | Macalister/1945, 184: `pulvinar'. |
Dimensions: | 0.91 x 0.37 x 0.19 (converted from Macalister/1945) |
Setting: | in ground |
Location: | earliest Macalister/1945, 184: `The middle stone in the row of three...No I [LUGUL/1] is 5' 3" from No. II [this stone]: No. II is 6' 6" from the uninscribed stone which is likewise a pulvinar'. |
Form: | plain Macalister/1945, 184: `a pulvinar, but it has been split longitudinally'. |
Condition: | incomplete , some |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | none |
Decorations: | no other decoration |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | GAMICUNAS Expansion: GAMICUNAS Macalister/1945 184 reading only Ziegler/1994 268 listing |
Cuppage, J. (1986): | GAMICUNAS Expansion: GAMICUNAS Cuppage/etal/1986 255 reading only |
McManus, D. (1991): | GAMICUNAS Expansion: GAMICUNAS McManus/1991 65 reading only |
Orientation: | vertical indeterminate |
Position: | NE ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated Macalister/1945, 185: `on the dexter angle of the eastern face; that on the first stone [LUGUL/1] is turned in the opposite direction'. |
Incision: | pocked Macalister/1945, 184: `pocked'. |
Date: | 400 - 500 (Ziegler/1994) Based on the linguistics of the name (Ziegler/1994, 182; zeitstufe I). 366 - 433 (McManus/1991) See McManus/1991, 93--94. |
Language: | name only (ogham) |
Ling. Notes: | See McManus/1991, 87, 102, 116, 117. |
Palaeography: | none |
Legibility: | good |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |
McManus/1991, 105: `GAMICUNAS (`winter' + `wolf')'.