CLMAC/159

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1909:215
Macalister/1949:756
Petrie/1872:16
Site:CLMAC
Discovery:first mentioned, 1822 Petrie, G.
History:
Geology:
Dimensions:0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 (Unknown)
Setting:Lost (present , missing )
Location:unknown
Form:fragment
Condition:frgmntry , poor
Folklore:none
Crosses:1: latin; linear; straight; plain; plain; angular; none; none; n/a
Decorations:

Petrie/1872, 19--20 `The design on this stone - an oblong space divided into four compartments - is the second example of a series of fourteen of these designs which are found belonging to the eighth and ninth centuries inClonmacnois'.

Macalister/1909, 43: `A plain-single line cross inside a single-line margin'.

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Inscriptions


CLMAC/159/1     Pictures

Readings

Petrie, G. (1822):THU || TGUS
Expansion:
THUTGUS
Macalister/1909 43 listing
Macalister/1949 60 listing
Petrie/1872 19--20, Plate VI, Fig. 16 Incomplete Information

Notes

Orientation:Indeterminate
Position:n/a ; broad ; within quadrants ; separated
Incision:inc.
Date:None published
Language:Goidelic (rbook)
Ling. Notes:none
Palaeography:CISP: The lettering is Insular half-uncial. Many of the letters appear to have had wedge-shaped finials. The S is half-uncial, the Ts have curved ascenders and flat top-strokes, the H is minuscule, and the U's have curved bottom strokes. The G is half-uncial.
Legibility:some
Lines:1
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

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