Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:10 Macalister/1949:606 Petrie/1872:159 |
Site: | CLMAC |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1822 Petrie, G. |
History: | Petrie/1872, 70: `Drawn by Dr. Petrie at Clonmacnois, in 1822'. Macalister/1909, 2: `I found it doing duty as a headstone buried almost to the top, and had it rooted up and transported to one of the chapels where the slabs are stored'. Recorded as still on site in Macalister/1949, 44. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 1.32 x 0.74 x 0.12 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
Setting: | inc |
Location: | on site Macalister/1909, 2: `I found it doing duty as a headstone buried almost to the top, and had it rooted up and transported to one of the chapels where the slabs are stored'. |
Form: | name-slab |
Condition: | complete , good |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | none |
Decorations: | no other decoration |
Petrie, G. (1872): | MAELMICHEIL Expansion: MAELMICHEIL Macalister/1909 2 reading only Macalister/1949 44, Plate XI reading only Petrie/1872 70 reading only |
Orientation: | horizontal |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated The one line horizontal inscription is placed at the top of the stone, leaving most of the face unused. |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | None published |
Language: | name only (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | CISP: The letters seem to grow increasingly large within each word. The script is half-uncial, the A is in the `OC' form, the Es are three-pronged and the middle stroke is elongated. Some of the letters have either serifs or wedge-shaped finials. |
Legibility: | good The text is clear. |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |