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'. |
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 |
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 |