CLMAC/206

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1909:267
Macalister/1949:802
Site:CLMAC
Discovery:first mentioned, 1872 Stokes, M.
History:Petrie/1872, 25, records this stone.

Macalister/1899, 116, records the stone as extant, and Macalister/1949, 65, records it as lost, stating that it is `known only from a drawing in O'Neills's plates of Irish Crosses'.

Geology:
Dimensions:0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 (Unknown)
Setting:Lost (present 1899, missing 1949)
Location:Recorded as extant in Macalister/1899, 116, and as lost in Macalister/1949, 65.
Macalister/1899, 116, records the stone as extant, but Macalister/1949, 65, records it as lost.
Form:cross-slab
Condition:inc , inc
Folklore:none
Crosses:1: inc; linear; straight; bifid; plain; none; none; none; plain
Decorations:

Macalister/1949, 65: `Cross with a lozenge expansion at the centre'.

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Inscriptions


CLMAC/206/1     Pictures

Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1909):DOTHUATHAL
Expansion:
DO THUATHAL
Macalister/1909 49 reading only
Macalister/1949 65 reading only

Notes

Orientation:horizontal
Position:inc ; broad ; above cross ; undivided
Incision:inc
Date:None published
Language:Goidelic (rbook)
Ling. Notes:none
Palaeography:CISP: The lettering is half-uncial. The Hs are minuscule in form. The Ts have curved ascenders and falt top-strokes and the L is also curved. The A is uncial in form and the D has an ascender which bends to the left over an open bow. The O is almost oval-shaped and the U is flat-bottomed with a short stroke to the elft from the top of the left-most ascender. The first H has a similar short stroke.
Legibility:inc
Lines:2
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

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