| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1949:App. 3 Okasha/Forsyth/2001:Toureen Peacaun 25 |
| Site: | TOURP |
| Discovery: | arch excav, 1944 Duignan, M.V. |
| History: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 265: `The stone was found in the summer of 1944 during excavation at the site ... It was a stray find from the rubble around stone no. 40 (the East Cross) ... During September to December 1944 the east wall of the church was rebuilt, incorporating many of the inscribed stones, including this one. The stone has remained there since'. |
| Geology: | Macalister/1949, 213: `sandstone'. |
| Dimensions: | 0.3 x 0.17 x 0.01 (Okasha/Forsyth/2001) |
| Setting: | in struct |
| Location: | on site Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 265: `The stone is built into the interior east wall of the ruined church'. |
| Form: | cross-slab Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 265: `The stone is part of a slab of unknown form'. |
| Condition: | frgmntry , some |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | 1: equal-armed; outline; straight; expanded; square; none; none; none; plain |
| Decorations: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 266: `Incised on its visible face is an outline equal-armed cross with rectangular expansions at the terminals and a square expansion at the crossing'. |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1949): | HEU[-- Expansion: HEU[-- Macalister/1949 213 reading only |
| Okasha and Forsyth (1996): | HEL[-- Expansion: HEL[AIR] Okasha/Forsyth/2001 266, 325 reading only |
| Orientation: | horizontal |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; above cross ; undivided Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 266: `A fragmentary text is set in a horizontal line above the cross'. |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | name only (rbook) |
| Ling. Notes: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 266: `the text is likely to have contained a personal name ... The h is scribal'. |
| Palaeography: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 266: `The text is probably in half-uncial script'. CISP: The lettering is uncertain. The h is in the minuscule form, but the E is in capitalis. The L looks to be angular rather than curved. |
| Legibility: | some Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 266: `The text is ... highly deteriorated'. |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |