Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:70 Macalister/1949:647 Petrie/1872:29 |
Site: | CLMAC |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1822 Petrie, G. |
History: | Petrie/1872, 23, seen `by Dr. Petrie, at Clonmacnois in 1822'. Recorded as still on site in Macalister/1949, 47. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 0.56 x 0.37 x 0.05 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
Setting: | inc |
Location: | on site |
Form: | cross-slab |
Condition: | incomplete , good The top-left quadrant of the cross is lost completely, as is much of the top right quadrant. What survives, however, seems to be in quite good condition. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: equal-armed; outline; straight; plain; circular; angular; inner curv; none; decorated |
Decorations: | geometric key pattern Macalister/1909, 14: `A four-line cross with invecked angles, the intersection surrounded by a circle enclosing voided spaces containing pellets, all within a Greek fret margin. A cross pattee containing a lozenge enclosing a pellet on the intersection of the cross.' Petrie1872, 23: `a highly decorated cross within a parallelogram; a border composed of the gammadion or Greek pattern surrounds it'. |
Petrie, G. (1822): | TUATHGAL Expansion: TUATHGAL Macalister/1909 14 reading only Macalister/1949 47 reading only Petrie/1872 23 reading only |
Orientation: | horizontal |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; below cross ; separated The inscription is below the cross and outside the margins. |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | 810 - 811 (Lionard/1961) |
Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial. The script is particularly rounded and well executed. The letters ATHGA are all joined by a cross-stroke, but it is uncertain whether the AT and GA joins should be seen as ligatured. The A's are in the `OC' form. |
Legibility: | good The inscription is clear. |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |
Lionard/1961, 160, identifies the commemorand as the abbot.