TOURP/43

Corpus Refs:Okasha/Forsyth/2001:Toureen Peacaun 38
Site:TOURP
Discovery:arch excav, 1987 Manning, C.
History:Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 285: `The stone was found in November 1987 during excavation at the site. It was found 0.2 m beneath the surface of the ground to the west of the platform on which the crosses (including stone no. 40 [TOURP/8]) are set'.
Geology:Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 322: `sandstone'.
Dimensions:0.21 x 0.34 x 0.05 (Okasha/Forsyth/2001)
Setting:unattch
Location:Dúchas store, Dublin
Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 285: `The stone is kept in the Dúchas store, Dublin'.
Form:cross-slab
Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 285: `The stone is a slab of irregular rectangular shape'.
Condition:complete , some
Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 285: `possibly complete, although damaged at the left edge. ... The face is badly abraded, especially on the left side, and portions of the cross and letters have delaminated'.
Folklore:none
Crosses:1: latin; outline; straight; straight; plain; none; none; other; plain
Decorations:

Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 285: `Incised on the face is an outline Latin cross, open at the bottom'.

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Inscriptions


TOURP/43/1

Readings

Okasha and Forsyth (1996):[--][E]ARASS | [D][.][E]
Expansion:
[--][E]ARASS [D][.][E]
Expansion:
[D][.][E]ARASS
Okasha/Forsyth/2001 286 reading only

Notes

Orientation:horizontal
Position:n/a ; broad ; above cross ; separated
Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 285: `Above this [cross] is a horizontal line of text with further letters below'.
Incision:
Date:None published
Language:Indeterminate (rbook)
Ling. Notes:none
Palaeography:Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 285: `The text is probably in half-uncial script'.

CISP: The lettering is Insular half-uncial. The As are in the 'OC' form and the Ss and R are also half-uncial. If the first letter of the second line is a D then it has an ascender which bends to the left over a closed angular bow. The E is in the closed minuscule form. It is one of only two such examples on the site. The other is TOURP/44.

Legibility:poor
Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 285: `highly deteriorated'.
Lines:2
Carving errors:n
Doubtful:no

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