Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1907:152 Macalister/1945:101 |
Site: | BAHAN |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1843 Windele, J. |
History: | |
Geology: | Macalister/1945, 98: `clayslate'. |
Dimensions: | 1.4 x 0.5 x 0.4 (Power/etal/1997) |
Setting: | in display |
Location: | National Museum, Dublin Macalister/1945, 92--93, records the removal of all ogham stones from their original location in the Ballyhank souterrain, `one of these was purchased from the local farmer by F. M. Jennings in 1846, and presented by him to the Royal Irish Academy (PRIA 3: 213, without any statement of provenance): in 1849 Windele removed the remaining stones to his own residence. All six are now re-united in the Academy's collection'. |
Form: | plain Macalister/1945, 98: `A rough block of clayslate'. |
Condition: | complete , inc |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | none |
Decorations: | no other decoration |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1907): | MAQIESI ||| MAQIDOMANE ||| QI Expansion: MAQI-ESI MAQI DOMANEQI Macalister/1907 87--89 reading only |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | MAQIESE ||| AMAQIDOMANE ||| QI Expansion: MAQI ESEA MAQI DOMANEQI Macalister/1945 98 concise discussion McManus/1991 95 reading only |
Orientation: | vertical up along down |
Position: | n/a ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated Macalister/1945, 98--100: `...inscribed on the dexter angle of the main face, running over the top diagonally, and down the dexter angle of the parallel face'. |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Goidelic (ogham) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | Macalister/1945, 99--100: `...the scores of the S slope slightly, there is no indication that they ever crossed the line...The D is in the hollow of a spall-matrix, but is traceable. The Q at the end is conceivably a mistake for N, the sculptor having become confused, as sometime happens, by the turn of the angle. On the angle intercepted between the two which bear the main inscription, there is a line of enigmatical characters...'. |
Legibility: | some |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | n |
Doubtful: | no |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1907): | MAQIMAD Expansion: MAQI MAD Macalister/1907 89 minor reference |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | --]BA[-][U]MAD[-- Expansion: --]BA[-][U]MAD[-- Macalister/1945 99--100 minor reference |
Orientation: | vertical up |
Position: | n/a ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Indeterminate (oghms) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | Macalister/1945, 99: `On the angle intercepted between the two which bear the main inscription, there is a line of enigmatical characters. They are in a measure comparable with the strange 'sigla' which appear in the Ogham pages of the Book of Ballymote...If we begin and read upward, we find B, A, and then a character composed of two cusped lines 'addorsed' to use a convenient heraldic term. According to the Ballymote text (see Calder's Auraicept, p. 302, line 25) such a symbol, with the two lines in contact, stands for ean. But on our stone they are separated, and one of them is flanked with H-scores; the Ballymote treatise does not enlighten us as to the meaning of this difference. Then comes what appears to be the U forfid, prolonged upward through the stem-line, followed by MAD and the feathermark'. |
Legibility: | poor Macalister/1907, 89: `unfinished inscription'. Macalister/1945, 99: `On the angle intercepted between the two which bear the main inscription, there is a line of enigmatical characters.' |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | n |
Doubtful: | yes |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | [--] Expansion: [--] Macalister/1945 100 reading only |
Orientation: | vertical indeterminate |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated Macalister/1945, 100: `In the middel of the B-surface'. |
Incision: | scratched Macalister/1945, 100: `Ogham graffito'. |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Indeterminate (oghms) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | none |
Legibility: | poor Macalister/1945, 100: `In the middle of the B-surface of the inscription just set forth [BAHAN/5/2] there is a vertical series of marks which has every appearance of being a long Ogham graffito. ... No decipherment is possible, thanks to the roughness of the stone, the inexpertness of the scribbler, and the obscurity which in any case is to be expected in such a text'. |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | |
Doubtful: | yes |