Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:156 Macalister/1949:713 Petrie/1872:101 |
Site: | CLMAC |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1869 Graves, J. |
History: | Petrie/1872, 50: `Drawn by M[argaret]. S[tokes]., from a rubbing made in 1869 by the Rev. James Graves'. Macalister/1949, 55, records the stone as still on site. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 0.79 x 0.61 x 0.05 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
Setting: | inc |
Location: | on site |
Form: | cross-slab |
Condition: | incomplete , some The lower left quadrant is lost, as are sections of the other three, whilst only a small piece of the upright of the cross survives. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: latin; outline; straight; half-round; circular; none; inner curv; ind; decorated |
Decorations: | geometric key pattern; geometric spiral Macalister/1909, 31: `a magnificent seven-line cross. The centre has a device of divergent spirals, and the surviving terminals have key-patterns of rich design'. Macalister/1949, 55: `cross, spiral ornament in centre, key-pattern enrichment in terminals'. |
Petrie, G. (1869): | --] || TUI[-- Expansion: [MAEL]TUI[LE] Macalister/1909 31 reading only Petrie/1872 50 reading only |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1949): | --]|| TUI[-- Expansion: [OROIT DO MAEL]TUI[LE] Macalister/1949 55 reading only |
Orientation: | horizontal |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; within quadrants ; quadrant The inscription that survives is in the lower right quadrant. If the restorations proposed by Petrie/1872, 50, Macalister/1909, 31, and Macalister/1949, 55, are correct then it must have also been in the now lost lower left quadrant. |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | None published |
Language: | name only (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial. |
Legibility: | good |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |