Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:85 Macalister/1949:655 Petrie/1872:80 |
Site: | CLMAC |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1872 Graves, J. |
History: | Petrie/1872, 39: `Drawn by M[argaret]. S[tokes]. from a rubbing made at Clonmacnois by the Rev. James Graves and Mr. W.M. Hennessy'. Recorded as still at this site in Macalister/1949, 48. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 0.66 x 0.69 x 0.09 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
Setting: | inc |
Location: | on site |
Form: | cross-slab |
Condition: | incomplete , some The upper right dexter quadrant of the cross is lost. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: equal-armed; outline; straight; expanded; square; cruciform; inner curv; none; plain |
Decorations: | Macalister/1909, 17: `a cross quadrate, the arms joined by a three-line circle; intersections mitred'. Macalister/1949, 48: `cross with square expansions at the centre and the terminals, a circle surrounding the centre'. |
Petrie, G. (1872): | ANNOC Expansion: ANNOC Petrie/1872 39 reading only |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1909): | ANHOC Expansion: ANHOC Macalister/1909 17 reading only Macalister/1949 48 reading only |
Orientation: | horizontal |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; below cross ; undivided The inscription is below and outside 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 and the H (as read by Macalister/1909, 17 and Macalister/1949, 48), has only a short ascender, which has an expanded finial. The O tapers downwards almost to a point. |
Legibility: | good |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |