Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:29 Macalister/1949:624 Petrie/1872:170 Petrie/1872:92 |
Site: | CLMAC |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1822 Petrie, G. |
History: | Petrie/1872, 45: `Drawn by Dr. Petrie at Clonmacnois, in the year 1822'. Recorded as still on site in Macalister/1949, 45. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 0.56 x 0.38 x 0.1 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
Setting: | inc |
Location: | on site |
Form: | cross-slab |
Condition: | incomplete , poor Only the bottom piece of the slab has survived. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: inc; outline; straight; ind; ind; none; none; other; plain |
Decorations: | Macalister/1909, 6: `Base of a cross fitchée, with a triquetra in the point. There seem to have been corner-pieces in the cantons, the lower spiral ends of which remain, there is nothing parallel to this elsewhere at Clonmacnoise'. Macalister/1949, 45: `base of a cross fitchee with a triquetra in the triangular lower terminal'. |
Petrie, G. (1822): | MOE[N][-- Expansion: MOEN[-- Macalister/1909 6 reading only Macalister/1949 45 reading only Petrie/1872 45 reading only |
Orientation: | vertical up |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; within quadrants ; quadrant The text we have runs up the left hand side of the cross. |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | 873 - 873 (Petrie/1872) |
Language: | name only (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial. The M has a short stroke to the left from the top of the first ascender. |
Legibility: | some |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |
Neither Macalister/1909, Macalister/1949, or Lionard/1961, accept this identification.