Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:65 Macalister/1949:643 Petrie/1872:63 |
Site: | CLMAC |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1822 Petrie, G. |
History: | Petrie/1872, 34: `Drawn by Dr. Petrie at Clonmacnois, in the year 1822'. Macalister/1949, 47, records the stone as still on site. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 0.76 x 0.51 x 0.09 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
Setting: | inc |
Location: | on site |
Form: | cross-slab |
Condition: | incomplete , some The top-right corner of the cross has been lost, as has much of the bottom left, indicating that the stone has been damaged in these areas. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: equal-armed; outline; straight; n/a; round holl; angular; inner curv; none; decorated |
Decorations: | Macalister/1909, 13: `Four-line cross, invecked at the intersections, the two outer lines forming a voided circle that surrounds the centre. On the cross, a voided lozenge at the centre, and a voided circlet at each intersection with the surrounding circle. The margin is in three lines, the two inner lines being bent to form corner-pieces in each angle; an additional external line springs from each side a short distance from the angle'. |
Petrie, G. (1822): | ARTRI Expansion: ARTRI Petrie/1872 34 reading only |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1909): | ARTTRI Expansion: ARTTRI Macalister/1909 13 reading only Macalister/1949 47 reading only Petrie/1872 Fig. 63 illustration of use only |
Orientation: | horizontal |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; above cross ; separated The text is outside the margin and above the cross. |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | None published |
Language: | name only (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial. The initial A is in the `OC' form; the ascender of the I is serifed at both ends; the down-strokes of the minuscule Rs are elongated; the size of the letters varies as does their position relative to a putative base-line, especially marked in the two Ts. |
Legibility: | good The text is clear. |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |