Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:266 Macalister/1949:827 Petrie/1872:178 |
Site: | CLMAC |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1822 Petrie, G. |
History: | Petrie/1872, 75: `Drawn by Dr. Petrie at Clonmacnois, in the year 1822'. Recorded as lost in Macalister/1899, 116, and Macalister/1909, 49. Macalister/1949, 65, 68, records that the stone was re-found by Mr. Molloy. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 0.33 x 0.22 x 0.0 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
Setting: | inc |
Location: | on site |
Form: | cross-slab |
Condition: | incomplete , poor Macalister/1949, 68: `The top of the stone is now broken away'. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: latin; outline; straight; half-round; circular; none; inner curv; ind; decorated |
Decorations: | geometric key pattern Macalister/1909, 49: `Five line cross with looped terminal, and circular central expansions, all containing key-patterns...The initial cross is pattée, with a fine line drawn around it'. Macalister/1949, 68: `Cross with expanding terminals containing key-pattern. The cross is drawn in a peculiar lopsided way, there being more component lines in the upper sinister and the lower dexter quarters than in the rest'. |
Petrie, G. (1822): | +D || OCEN | NE || DIG Expansion: + DO CENNEDIG Translation: + For Cennedig (PN). Macalister/1909 49 reading only Petrie/1872 75 reading only |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1949): | [+D] || OCEN | [NE] || DIG Expansion: [+ D]O CENNEDIG Macalister/1949 68 reading only |
Orientation: | vertical down |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; within quadrants ; quadrant |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | 1128 - 1128 (Petrie/1872) 1128 - 1128 (Lionard/1961) |
Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | CISP: The lettering is Insular half-uncial. Both drawings agree that the G and I have wedge-shaped finials, while Petrie's drawing also shows such finials on the Ns and second D. For Macalister the D with an ascender which bends to the left has a rounded open bow, for Petrie the bow was heart-shaped. Similarly for Macalister the E is in the open uncial form and for Petrie it was in the closed minuscule form. For Petrie the O was oval shaped while for Macalister it was rounded. |
Legibility: | some |
Lines: | 2 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |