Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:110 Macalister/1949:677 Petrie/1872:36 |
Site: | CLMAC |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1872 Conyngham, B. |
History: | Petrie/1872, 25: `This stone was drawn at Clonmacnois...by Colonel Burton Conyngham, and given to Dr. Petrie by Mr. Cooper'. Recorded as still on site in Macalister/1949, 50. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 0.71 x 0.51 x 0.06 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
Setting: | inc |
Location: | on site |
Form: | cross-slab |
Condition: | complete , good |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: latin; outline; straight; expanded; round holl; none; inner curv; none; plain |
Decorations: | Macalister/1949, 50: `wheel cross'. |
Petrie, G. (1872): | DUB || INSE Expansion: DUBINSE Macalister/1909 22 reading only Macalister/1949 50 reading only Petrie/1872 25 reading only |
Orientation: | horizontal |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; within quadrants ; separated The inscription is within the two upper quadrants. |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | 814 - 1032 (Lionard/1961) |
Language: | name only (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial. The initial D has an ascender bending leftwards over an open bow; the S is minuscule; the E is three-pronged with an elongated middle stroke, and the B is also open-bowed. |
Legibility: | good |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |
Lionard/1961, 160, identifies the commemorand as either this lector, or a scribe from Clonmacnoise whose obit is placed in 814 in the Annals of the Four Masters.