| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1945:314 |
| Site: | STISL |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1910 O'Connor |
| History: | Macalister/1945, 301, was working from a squeeze provided by the `Very Rev. Prior of this sacred island'. The previous publication by Connor used a poor rubbing and is vehemently argued against by Macalister. |
| Geology: | |
| Dimensions: | 0.33 x 0.28 x 0.0 (converted from Macalister/1945) |
| Setting: | inc |
| Location: | earliest No information given, presumed to still be on the Island. |
| Form: | Incomplete Information Quite a small stone from Macalister's measurements of the surface, probably the equivalent of a `name slab'. |
| Condition: | complete , poor Macalister/1945, 302: `desperately worn'. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | Macalister/1945, 303: `Below the fifth line [of the text] are some marks of which I can make nothing'. |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | --]OR[-- | OR{N}EC | NVSET | {E}LISASOM[N] | IVM [-- Expansion: --]OR[--] ORNECNVS ET ELISA SOMNIVM [-- Macalister/1945 302--303 reading only |
| Orientation: | horizontal |
| Position: | inc ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | Latin (rcaps) |
| Ling. Notes: | Macalister/1945, 302: `The legible part of the inscription is thus ORNECNVS ET ELISA SOMNIVM...which suggests that the two persons named visited the island at some pre-Christian stage in its history for the purpose of obtaining an oracular vision. But the inscription is too far gone to give security to any interpretation'. |
| Palaeography: | Macalister/1945, 301--303: `in Roman capitals...The first line contains the letters OR, preceded and followed by marks which are quite indefinite. It is certain that we cannot think here of the OROIT formula of later Christian inscriptions. The scribe made the N in the second line with the oblique stroke turned the wrong way and afterwards corrected the error: he also seems to have left out the E at the beginning of the fourth line, and inserted it later'. |
| Legibility: | poor Macalister/1945, 302: `the letters are scarcely visible'. |
| Lines: | 5 |
| Carving errors: | 2 |
| Doubtful: | no |