Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:21 Macalister/1949:617 Petrie/1872:54 |
Site: | CLMAC |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1822 Petrie, G. |
History: | First recorded in Petrie/1872, 32. Recorded as still on site in Macalister/1949, 44. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 0.47 x 0.33 x 0.1 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
Setting: | inc |
Location: | on site |
Form: | name-slab |
Condition: | complete , some Macalister/1909, 5, speaks of `a roughness' and `an old flake in the surface of the stone'. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: latin; linear; straight; expanded; plain; none; none; none; plain |
Decorations: | Macalister/1909, 5: `a small latin cross pattee'. Macalister/1949, 44: `a small latin cross'. |
Petrie, G. (1872): | O~R~DO | CUM SI Expansion: OROIT DO CUMSI Translation: Pray for Cumsi (PN). Macalister/1909 5 reading only Macalister/1949 44 reading only Petrie/1872 31 reading only |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1949): | O~R~DO | CUM[U]SI Expansion: OROIT DO CUMUSI Macalister/1949 44 reading only |
Orientation: | horizontal |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; above cross ; undivided |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | 800 - 899 (Petrie/1872) |
Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial. The initial OR has a contraction mark; the D is open-bowed with the ascender curving over the bow to the left; the S is majuscule and some of the letters are serifed. |
Legibility: | some Macalister/1909, 5: `the last letter is injured by a flake, but it is unquestionably an I'. |
Lines: | 2 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |