CLMAC/117

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'.

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Inscriptions


CLMAC/117/1     Pictures

Readings

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

Notes

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

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