SDAV3/1

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1949:1040
Nash-Williams/1950:379
RCAHMW/1925:1004(i)
Site:SDAV3
Discovery:first mentioned, 1876 Westwood, J.O.
History:First mentioned in Westwood/1879, 131, where he states `at present standing in the north transept of St. David's Cathedral'.

Macalister/1949, 174: `now standing at the west end of the north aisle'.

Geology:Macalister/1949, 17: `grit'.
Dimensions:0.81 x 0.5 x 0.43 (converted from Nash-Williams/1950)
Setting:unattch
Location:on site
Westwood/1879, 131: `at present standing in the north transept of St. David's Cathedral'.

Macalister/1949, 174: `now standing at the west end of the north aisle'.

Nash-Williams/1950, 208: `Inside the Cathedral'.

Form:cross-base
Westwood/1879, 131: `These two figures represent a stone block...about 2 feet 8 inches high. In its present condition it is cylindrical, with the base slightly dilated, the top hollowed into a circular basin, whence it was probably used as a holy water stoup. It is evident however, from the slight and unintelligible remains of an inscription in one part and of an ornamental interlaced pattern in another portion of the circumference, that the stone had originally formed the quadrangular base of a cross, and that all the angles had been rounded off in order to give it a cylindrical form...I am indebted to the Very Rev. James Allen (now Dean of St. David's) for drawings from which the accompanying figures have been made'.

Allen/1896, 294: `Pillar stoup'.

Macalister/1949, 174: `It was originally a rectangular block...and then it was inscribed...It was afterwards turned (apparently) into a holy-water stoup, by trimming it into a cylindrical pillar, all except about 7" at the bottom, which was left to form a plinth: the pillar thus made is 1' 3" in diameter, and has a hollow in the top 1' 0" in diameter, 0' 5 1/2" deep'.

Nash-Williams/1950, 208: `Basal portion of a quadrangular slightly tapering (?) shaft (? of a free-standing pillar-cross). 32+" h. x 19 1/2" w. x 17 1/2" t. The angles above the squarish base have been dressed away, reducing the shaft to an irregularly cylindrical shape, and the (broken) top has been hollowed out to form a basin (? for use as a font or stoup)'.

Condition:frgmntry , poor
Folklore:none
Crosses:none
Decorations:no other decoration

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Inscriptions


SDAV3/1/1     Pictures

Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1949):+DAUID[-- | --]XIT[-- | --]RCA[-- | --]B{*}T[-- | --]TD[-- | UIDI
Expansion:
+DAUID[US ERE]XIT [HANC A]RCA[M P(ro) OSSI]B(US) T[HOME E]T D[A]UIDI
Macalister/1949 174 reading only
Nash-Williams, V.E. (1950):--]AU[-- | --]X[-- | --]C~N[-- | --]BT[-- | --]TD[-- | --]D[--
Expansion:
--]AU[--]X[--]CN[--]BT[--]TD[--]D[--
Nash-Williams/1950 208 reading only

Notes

Orientation:horizontal
Position:ind ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated
Macalister/1949, 174: `six lines of half-uncials, divided by horizontal rules. The top of the inscription is 9" lower than the top of the stone'.

Nash-Williams/1950, 208: `The face of the shaft bears fragmentary vestiges of lettering (Fig. 237) in six or more lines reading horizontally'.

Incision:cut
Nash-Williams/1950, 208: `deeply cut'.
Date:900 - 1199 (Nash-Williams/1950)
Nash-Williams/1950, 208: `The monument is not likely to be earlier than the 10th century'.
Language:Latin (rbook)
Ling. Notes:Macalister/1949, 174: `The stone must have stood beside a shrine which was intended to enclose the relics of the two saints named; the donor of the shrine, being a namesake of St. David, presumably considered himself under his patronage'.

Macalister/1949, 174, also argues that the inscription is in Latin and that it contains the name DAVID[US].

Palaeography:RCAHMW/1925, 348: `It bears certain lettering, but no satisfactory decipherment of this has been achieved'.

Macalister/1949, 174: `In consequence of this treatment the beginning and end of each line of the writing -- except the last, which being upon the plinth escaped being injury -- was destroyed'.

Nash-Williams/1950, 208: `Round half-uncials, deeply cut in fairly good style'.

Legibility:poor
Westwood/1879, 131: `Mutilated'.
Lines:6
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

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