Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:140 Macalister/1949:700 Petrie/1872:137 |
Site: | CLMAC |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1822 Petrie, G. |
History: | Petrie/1872, 62: `Drawn by Dr. Petrie at Clonmacnois, in the year 1822'. Recorded as still on site in Macalister/1949, 53. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 0.86 x 0.48 x 0.06 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
Setting: | inc |
Location: | on site |
Form: | cross-slab |
Condition: | complete , some Macalister/1909, 28: `The central expansion is now clogged with lime, and the pattern can no longer be made out'. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: latin; outline; straight; half-round; circular; cruciform; inner curv; none; decorated |
Decorations: | geometric key pattern Macalister/1909, 28: `A cross with circular centre and arm-ends rather larger than a semi-circle, all containing key-patterns'. Macalister/1949, 53: `cross with key-pattern enrichment'. |
Petrie, G. (1822): | O~R~D || O | MARTEM~[-- Expansion: OROIT DO MARTEM[-- Petrie/1872 62 reading only |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1909): | O~R~D || O | MAILTEM~ Expansion: OROIT DO MAILTEMIN Macalister/1909 28 reading only Macalister/1949 53 reading only |
Orientation: | vertical down |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; mixed ; separated The inscription is in two vertical lines running from above the cross, through the two right-hand quadrants and the lower left quadrant to below the cross. |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial. The initial OR has a contraction mark over it and the two O's taper downwards to a point; the R is majuscule; the D has an ascender which bends to the left over an open bow; the two M's have short leftwards strokes from the top of the first ascenders; the E is closed and the final M has a contraction mark over it. |
Legibility: | good |
Lines: | 2 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |