WHFLD/2

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1945:216
OSullivan/etal/1996:908
Site:WHFLD
Discovery:first mentioned, 1853 The MacGillicuddy
History:
Geology:
Dimensions:1.42 x 0.3 x 0.15 (converted from Macalister/1945)
Setting:unattch
Location:National Museum, Dublin (Cat: W10)
Macalister/1945, 208: `Four stones inscribed with Ogham writing were exhibited by The MacGillicuddy of the Reeks at the Dublin Exhibition of 1853, and were presented by him to the Royal Irish Academy in the following year...Of these stones two certainly..., and all four probably, came from a souterrain in th townland of Whitefield'.
Form:plain
Condition:inc , some
Folklore:none
Crosses:none
Decorations:no other decoration

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Inscriptions


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Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1945):GOSOCTEASMOSACMA{K}INI
Expansion:
GOSOCTEAS MOSAC MAKINI
Macalister/1945 209--210 reading only
McManus/1991 65 reading only
OSullivan/etal/1996 236 reading only
Ziegler/1994 271 reading only
Gippert, J. (1987):GOSOCTEASMOSACMA[{K}EA]NI
Expansion:
GOSOCTEAS MOSAC MA[KEA]NI
Gippert/Web 216 reading only [Gippert 216]

Notes

Orientation:vertical up
Position:inc ; arris ; inc ; undecorated
Incision:inc
Date:500 - 700 (Ziegler/1994)
Language:Goidelic (ogham)
Ling. Notes:See McManus/1991, 72--73, 108, 116.
Palaeography:See McManus/1991, 79 for the use of the first supplementary character - X - on this stone.
Legibility:some
Macalister/1945, 209: `The word MOSAC possibly appears also on the stone at Crickhowel, Brecon, where the accompanying Latin epitaph translates as PVVERI. As we have seen in the introduction, it is open to question whether the engraver has not written here a cross-line X (=K) by mistake for an underline X (=P). Mapini certainly seems to be more plausible than Makini'.

Gippert/Web, Ogham 216: `There is a considerable space between the fourth and fifth vowel notch of the second vowel in the last word, thus suggesting a reading -EA- rather than Macalister's and Brash's -I-. Of the K-forfid, only part of one axis can be ascertained so that it appears like a second M; it is too much slanted for being read as a B'.

Lines:1
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

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