Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1949:579 |
Site: | MARLY |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1916 Macalister, R.A.S. |
History: | Macalister/1949, 31: `Said to have come from an old graveyard on this [Marlay] townland: removed thence to Rokeby Hall, and afterwards deposited in the porch of St. Peter's Church, Drogheda, where it now lies'. |
Geology: | Macalister/1949, 31: `grit'. |
Dimensions: | 0.8 x 0.81 x 0.2 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
Setting: | in display |
Location: | other Macalister/1949, 31, states that it now lies `in the porch of St. Peter's Church, Drogheda'. |
Form: | recumbent monument Macalister/1949, 31: `More or less circular slab'. |
Condition: | incomplete , some The left side of the stone is quite badly damaged. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: latin; linear; straight; bifid; plain; none; none; none; n/a 2: latin; linear; straight; bifid; plain; cruciform; inner curv; none; n/a |
Decorations: | Macalister/1949, 31: `an enclosing circle, so to call it: two crosses, one with bifid terminals, the other with semi-circular expansions at the ends...and a circular expansion in the centre'. |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1949): | TNUDACH || COCMANF Expansion: TNUDACH COCMAN F[ILIUS] Expansion: TNUDACH COCMAN F[ECIT] Macalister/1949 31 reading only |
Orientation: | horizontal |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; mixed ; separated The inscription is in two lines, one above and one below the crosses, and inside a one line circular margin. |
Incision: | pocked Macalister/1949, 31: `roughly punched'. |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Latin (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | The letter F may stand for `filius' or `fecit' in which case the inscription could be seen to be in Latin. |
Palaeography: | Macalister/1949, 31: `Most of the letters have large bifid serifs'. CISP: The inscription is in a very elaborate form of half-uncial. All the letters have decorative bifid serifs, which give the letters an outlandish appearance. The A's are in the `OC' form and the hm are ligatured. |
Legibility: | good |
Lines: | 2 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |