TOURP/20

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1949:App. 12
Okasha/Forsyth/2001:Toureen Peacaun 18
Site:TOURP
Discovery:arch excav, 1944 Duignan, M.V.
History:Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 257: `The stone was found in the summer of 1944 during excavation at the site ... It was a stray find and Waddell and Holland do not record exactly where it was found ... 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:0.175 x 0.21 x 0.01 (Okasha/Forsyth/2001)
Setting:in struct
Location:on site
Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 256: `The stone is built into the interior east wall of the ruined church'.
Form:cross-slab
Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 257: `The stone is part of a slab of unknown form'.
Condition:frgmntry , poor
Folklore:none
Crosses:1: equal-armed; linear; straight; expanded; plain; none; none; none; n/a
Decorations:

Okasha/Forsyth/2001, Incised on its visible face is a linear equal-armed cross with expanded (forked) terminals'

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Inscriptions


TOURP/20/1

Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1949):BAN | DR[--
Expansion:
BANDR[--
Macalister/1949 213 reading only
Okasha and Forsyth (1996):[--][.]AN || D[.][--
Expansion:
[--][.]AND[.][--
Okasha/Forsyth/2001 257 reading only

Notes

Orientation:horizontal
Position:n/a ; broad ; below cross ; separated
Macalister/1949, 213: `writing divided by cross base'.

Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 257: `Below [the cross] are the remains of a single horizontal line of text interrupted by the lower arm of the cross. The text is incomplete at both ends and further text could have been lost beneath it'.

Incision:inc
Date:None published
Language:name only (rbook)
Ling. Notes:Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 257: `the text may have been a single personal name'.
Palaeography:Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 257: `The text is in half-uncial script'.

CISP: The lettering is Insular half-uncial. The A is in the 'OC' form. The D has an ascender which bends to the left over an open bow.

Legibility:poor
Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 257: `The text is ... slightly deteriorated'.
Lines:1
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

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