TULYS/5

Corpus Refs:Henderson/Okasha/1992:14
Okasha/Forsyth/2001:Tullylease 5
Site:TULYS
Discovery:first mentioned, 1894 Leask, H.J.
History:Henderson/Okasha/1992, 6: `said by Leask to have been found in 1894 but to have been lost by the time he wrote (that is, before 1938)'.
Geology:
Dimensions:0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 (Unknown)
Setting:Lost (present 1894, missing 1938)
Location:Recorded by Leask as found in 1894, but lost by his time (1938).
Form:cross-slab
Condition:n/a , n/a
Folklore:none
Crosses:1: inc; outline; expanded; inc; ind; angular; ind; ind; decorated
Decorations:

Henderson/Okasha/1992, 3: `incised with part of the side-arm of a cross. The arm has concave sides, is ornamented with fret-pattern, and is attached to a frame'.

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Inscriptions


TULYS/5/1

Readings

Okasha, E. (1992):--][C]ES[...][--
Expansion:
--][C]ES[..B/D/O][--
Henderson/Okasha/1992 13, Plate 1e reading only

Notes

Orientation:horizontal
Position:n/a ; broad ; within quadrants ; quadrant
Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 129: `The text appears to have been set horizontally'.
Incision:inc
Date:733 - 766 (Okasha/Forsyth/2001)
Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 130: `middle of the eighth century'.
Language:Indeterminate (rbook)
Ling. Notes:none
Palaeography:Henderson/Okasha/1992, 14: `some form of manuscript script'.

Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 129: `The text appears to have been in half-uncial script'.

CISP: The lettering is in half-uncial. The C, E and S are all in the angular forms of these letters that appear to be distinctive to the Tullylease inscriptions.

Legibility:n/a
Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 129: `The letters are shown as damaged'.
Lines:1
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

Names

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