TOURP/45

Corpus Refs:Okasha/Forsyth/2001:Toureen Peacaun 49
Site:TOURP
Discovery:first mentioned, 2001 Okasha, E. and Forsyth, K.
History:Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 308: `The stone is not recorded in any published account of the stones. However, in photographs possibly dating from the 1960s, preserved in the Dúchas archive (negatives no. 82, 83; see illustrations [pp. 305, 307]), the stone is shown built into the east interior wall of the church to the left of the plain free-standing cross, in the upper register of slabs, between slabs 47 [TOURP/19] and 48 [TOURP/15]. The stone presumably fell out of the wall and dissappeared before repair work was done to the east wall in 1986-87'.
Geology:Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 322: `sandstone'.
Dimensions:0.09 x 0.09 x 0.0 (Okasha/Forsyth/2001)
Setting:Lost (present 1960, missing 1986)
Location:Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 308, shows that the stone was extant when photographed in the 1960s, but was missing by 1986/87.
Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 308: `The stone is now lost'.
Form:other
Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 309: `The stone was part of a slab of unknown form'.
Condition:frgmntry , n/a
Folklore:none
Crosses:none
Decorations:no other decoration

References


Inscriptions


TOURP/45/1

Readings

Okasha and Forsyth (2001):[--][.]U[--]
Expansion:
[--][D]U[--
Expansion:
[--][O]U[--
Expansion:
[--][R]U[--
Okasha/Forsyth/2001 309 reading only

Notes

Orientation:Indeterminate
Position:n/a ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated
Incision:
Date:None published
Language:Indeterminate (rbook)
Ling. Notes:Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 309: `The fragmentary text cannot now be interpreted'.
Palaeography:Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 309: `The text appears to have been in half-uncial script'.

CISP: The extant flat-bottomed U and vertical I are not enough with which to determine the script.

Legibility:n/a
Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 309: `The text appears to have been ... legible'.
Lines:1
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

Names

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