Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:185 Macalister/1949:733 Petrie/1872:172 |
Site: | CLMAC |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1869 Graves, J. |
History: | Petrie/1872, 74: `Drawn by Miss Boxwell, from stones found at Clonmacnois by the Rev. James Graves, in the year 1869'. Recorded as still on site in Macalister/1909, 36, and Macalister/1949, 57. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 0.44 x 0.51 x 0.06 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
Setting: | inc |
Location: | on site Recorded as still on site in Macalister/1949, 57. |
Form: | cross-slab |
Condition: | frgmntry , poor Macalister/1909, 36: `fragment'. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: inc; inc; straight; ind; ind; none; ind; half-round; decorated |
Decorations: | geometric key pattern Macalister/1909, 36: `fragment with looped terminal containing key-pattern'. |
Boxwell, Miss (1869): | --] | LAI[T] Expansion: --]LAIT Petrie/1872 74 reading only |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1909): | --] | LAI[G] Expansion: --]LAIG Macalister/1909 36 reading only Macalister/1949 57 reading only |
Orientation: | horizontal |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; within quadrants ; quadrant |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | None published |
Language: | name only (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial. The initial L is curved, the A is angular and open-bowed, with an upwards flourish from the bottom right corner and the I is vertical. The final letter was shown in Petrie/1872, Fig. 172, as a half-uncial T, and in Macalister/1909, Plate XXVIII, and Macalister/1949, Plate XXXII, as a half-uncial G. |
Legibility: | some The first three of the surviving letters are clear, but the fourth letter is only fragmentary. |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |