Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1949:App. 21 Okasha/Forsyth/2001:Toureen Peacaun 59 |
Site: | TOURP |
Discovery: | arch excav, 1878 Petrie, G. |
History: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 318: `In 1878 Petrie described this stone as `in a small recess in the south side-wall within the church' ... Crawford failed to find this stone ... and it has not been recorded since'. |
Geology: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 322: `sandstone'. |
Dimensions: | 0.1 x 0.155 x 0.025 (Okasha/Forsyth/2001) |
Setting: | Lost (present 1878, missing 1909) |
Location: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 318, shows that the stone was seen by Petrie, but lost some time before Crawford visited the site. Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 318: `The stone is now lost'. |
Form: | other Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 318: `The stone was a fragment of a slab of unknown form'. |
Condition: | frgmntry , n/a |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | none |
Decorations: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 318: `Petrie's illustration shows no cross or lettering but some markings. Petrie described these as `curious marks ... said to be letters, along with a fragment of zig-zag design incised'. |
Okasha and Forsyth (2001): | [--] Expansion: [--] Okasha/Forsyth/2001 318 reading only |
Orientation: | horizontal |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; inc ; inc |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Indeterminate (inc) |
Ling. Notes: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 318: `the text is not now recoverable'. |
Palaeography: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 318: `script uncertain'. |
Legibility: | poor Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 318: `the text, if such it was, appears to be fragmentary and rather deteriorated ... No letters can be clearly made out from Petrie's drawing'. |
Lines: | |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | yes |