CLMAC/119

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1909:159
Macalister/1949:715
Petrie/1872:162
Site:CLMAC
Discovery:first mentioned, 1822 Petrie, G.
History:Petrie/1872, 71: `Dr. Petrie drew...[this stone] at Clonmacnois in 1822'.

Macalister/1909, 32, records that the stone was by then in the National Museum of Ireland, and Macalister/1949, 55, states that the stone was still there.

Geology:
Dimensions:0.3 x 0.25 x 0.03 (converted from Macalister/1949)
Setting:in display
Location:National Museum of Ireland (Cat: n/a)
Macalister/1949, 55, states that the stone is in the National Museum of Ireland.
Form:cross-slab
Petrie/1872, 71: `It is doubtful whether...[it] was a tombstone, or only formed part of the ornament of some building. It seems too small to have been a tombstone'.
Condition:complete , good
Folklore:none
Crosses:1: equal-armed; outline; expanded; plain; circular; circular; inner curv; none; plain
Decorations:

Macalister/1909, 32: `A cross pattee with circular centre, inside a circle'.

Macalister/1949, 55: `cross pattee inside a circle'.

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Inscriptions


CLMAC/119/1     Pictures

Readings

Petrie, G. (1822):M || A || LE || C[.]
Expansion:
MALEC[.]
Petrie/1872 71 reading only
Macalister, R.A.S. (1909):M || A || LE || C
Expansion:
MALEC
Macalister/1909 32 reading only
Macalister/1949 55 reading only
Macalister, R.A.S. (1949):LE || C || M || A
Expansion:
LEC MA
Macalister/1949 55 reading only

Notes

Orientation:circular
Position:n/a ; broad ; within quadrants ; separated
The inscription is inscribed in a circle, with the outside of the cross as the top of the line, and occupying each of the four quadrants of the cross.
Incision:inc
Date:None published
Language:Incomplete Information (rbook)
Ling. Notes:none
Palaeography:CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial. The first ascender of the M joins the second at both the top and bottom; the A is in the `OC' form and the E is closed.
Legibility:good
Petrie/1872, 71, states that the `letters on [this stone are]...so mutilated that it is impossible to say what name...[they] may have stood for'. But Macalister/1909, 32, and Macalister/1949, 55, give no indication that the inscription is damaged or difficult to read.
Lines:1
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:yes

Names

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