CLMAC/140

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1909:189
Macalister/1949:736
Petrie/1872:141
Site:CLMAC
Discovery:first mentioned, 1869 Graves, J.
History:Petrie/1872, 64: `Drawn by M[argaret]. S[tokes]., from a rubbing made by the Rev. James Graves, at Clonmacnoise, in 1869'.

Recorded as still on site in Macalister/1909, 37, and again in Macalister/1949, 57.

Geology:
Dimensions:0.83 x 0.43 x 0.11 (converted from Macalister/1949)
Setting:inc
Location:on site
Recorded as still on site in Macalister/1949, 57.
Form:cross-slab
Condition:incomplete , poor
Macalister/1909, Plate XXVIII, shows the stone as broken in two pieces, with other sections missing; and 37, states that Petrie had overlooked the second `fragment, whose thickness shows that it must belong to this slab (although it does not fit the fracture, owing to the loss of the intervening part of the stone)'.
Folklore:none
Crosses:1: latin; outline; straight; half-round; circular; none; inner curv; none; decorated
Decorations:geometric key pattern

Macalister/1909, 37: `A three line cross with a peculiar spiral pattern in the central expansion, key-patterns in the side and basal terminals, and a knot in the head terminal'.

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Inscriptions


CLMAC/140/1     Pictures

Readings

Graves, J. (1869):O~R~ || DO[--] | BRIGTE
Expansion:
OROIT DO [MAEL]BRIGTE
Translation:
Pray for...Brigte (PN).
Petrie/1872 63 reading only
Macalister, R.A.S. (1909):OR || DOM[A]EL | BRIGTE
Expansion:
OROIT DO M[A]ELBRIGTE
Macalister/1909 37 reading only
Macalister, R.A.S. (1949):OR || DO[MA]EL | BRIGTE
Expansion:
OROIT DO [MA]ELBRIGTE
Macalister/1949 57 reading only

Notes

Orientation:vertical down
Position:n/a ; broad ; within quadrants ; quadrant
Incision:inc
Date:None published
Language:Goidelic (rbook)
Ling. Notes:none
Palaeography:CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial. The initial O tapers downward to a point; the R's are majuscule and open bowed; the D has an ascender that bends to the left over an open tapering bow; the E's are minuscule; the L curved; the B has an ascender which bends to the right over an open bow and the G and T are in the classic half-uncial forms.
Legibility:good
All the surviving letters, except the M of the 1st line, are clear.
Lines:2
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

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