TOURP/4

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1949:922
Okasha/Forsyth/2001:Toureen Peacaun 14
Site:TOURP
Discovery:first mentioned, 1909 Crawford, H.S.
History:Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 250: `In 1909 this stone was built into the `north-west corner of the church' which had been `formed into a kind of station' ... In the early 1930s it was photographed lying loose as part of a `crude pilgrim's "station"' which had been built at the west end of the church some time before ... Comparison between the photograph of the stone and its present shape suggests that the edges of the stone were trimmed or broken before it was built into the east wall. This was between September and December 1944 when the east wall of the church was rebuilt. The stone has remained there since'.
Geology:Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 322: `sandstone'.
Dimensions:0.14 x 0.25 x 0.0 (Okasha/Forsyth/2001)
Setting:in ground
Location:earliest
Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 249: `The stone is built upside down into the interior east wall of the ruined church'.
Form:other
Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 250: `The stone is a fragment of a slab of unknown form'.
Condition:frgmntry , some
Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 250: `the edges of the stone were trimmed or broken before it was built into the wall'.
Folklore:none
Crosses:none
Decorations:no other decoration

References


Inscriptions


TOURP/4/1

Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1949):AUR[--
Expansion:
AUR[--
Macalister/1949 100, Plate XLV reading only
Okasha and Forsyth (1996):OU.R[--]
Expansion:
OU.R[--]
Okasha/Forsyth/2001 250 reading only

Notes

Orientation:Indeterminate
Position:n/a ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated
Macalister/1949, 100, thought he could see fragments of a cross on this stone. This is sliently discounted by Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 249--251.
Incision:inc
Date:None published
Language:Indeterminate (rbook)
Ling. Notes:none
Palaeography:Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 250: `The text is in half-uncial script'.

CISP: The lettering is half-uncial. The U is flat-bottomed, with the right ascender continuing below the horizontal stroke. This same ascender of the U appears to have a wedge-shaped finial. There is an interpunct between the U and R. The R is majuscule with an open bow and an angled 'foot'.

Legibility:some
Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 250: `slightly deteriorated'.
Lines:1
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

Names

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