Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:137 Macalister/1949:697 Petrie/1872:140 |
Site: | CLMAC |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1822 Petrie, G. |
History: | Petrie/1872, 63: `Drawn by Dr. Petrie at Clonmacnois, in the year 1822'. The stone was already damaged by then, but had become more so by Macalister/1909, 28. Recorded as still on site in Macalister/1949, 53. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 0.47 x 0.43 x 0.04 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
Setting: | inc |
Location: | on site |
Form: | cross-slab |
Condition: | incomplete , poor Much of the stone has been lost. The surviving piece consists of the upper left quadrant and small sections of the other three. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: latin; outline; straight; half-round; circular; none; inner curv; ind; decorated |
Decorations: | geometric key pattern Macalister/1909, 29: `This beautifully cut cross...has a three-line stem with a circular central expansion containing a key-pattern, and blank semi-circular terminal expansions'. Macalister/1949: `key pattern in central expansion'. |
Petrie, G. (1822): | [..] || DOMAEL | PHA || TRAIC Expansion: [OROIT] DO MAELPHATRAIC Translation: Pray for Maelphatraic (PN). Petrie/1872 63 reading only |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1949): | --OR] || [DOMAEL] | PHÁ || T[RAIC] Expansion: [OROIT DO MAEL]PHÁT[RAIC] Macalister/1909 28 reading only Macalister/1949 53 reading only |
Orientation: | vertical down |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; within quadrants ; separated The inscription is in two lines running downwards through all four quadrants. |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial. The D has an ascender which bends to the left over an open bow; the A's are in the `OC' form; the E is closed; the R is majuscule; the bow of the P is open; the 2nd A has an accent over it and some of the letters, as shown in Petrie/1872, Plate LVII, have wedge-shaped finials. |
Legibility: | poor Only four letters of the once much longer inscription remain intact. Two others have only fragments remaining. |
Lines: | 2 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |