| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:120 Macalister/1949:684 Petrie/1872:30 |
| Site: | CLMAC |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1822 Petrie, G. |
| History: | Petrie/1872, 24: `Drawn by Dr. Petrie at Clonmacnois, in 1822'. Recorded as still on site in Macalister/1949, 51. |
| Geology: | |
| Dimensions: | 0.41 x 0.46 x 0.06 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
| Setting: | inc |
| Location: | on site |
| Form: | cross-slab |
| Condition: | frgmntry , poor Macalister/1949, 51: `Small fragment only of a slab more nearly intact in Petrie's time. ... The shaded portion of the diagram shows what remains'. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | 1: latin; outline; straight; plain; curved; angular; inner curv; none; decorated |
| Decorations: | geometric key pattern Petrie/1872, 24: `An Irish cross is sculptured on this stone, enclosed in a parallelogram, with a rich border composed of gammadion, or Greek fret'. Macalister/1909, 24: `It was a plain Celtic cross in a well-executed Greek fret. On the surface of the stem was a curious ladder-like ornament, terminating in horns above, and a panel containing a swastika - the only example at Clonmacnois of this motif'.
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| Petrie, G. (1822): | O~R~OIT ||| A{R}LIAT[--] Expansion: OROIT AR LIAT[-- Translation: Pray for Liat[--] (PN). Petrie/1872 24 reading only |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1949): | OROIT ||| A{R}LIAT[-- Expansion: OROIT AR LIAT[-- Macalister/1909 24 reading only Macalister/1949 51 reading only |
| Orientation: | mixed directions |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; mixed ; undivided The inscription appears to have run outside the frame of the cross, up the left-hand edge and along the top. |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | CISP: The inscription was in half-uncial. The IT, LI, and AT are conjoined; the I's and L's have distinct wedge-shaped finials; the A's are in the `OC' form and the R's are majuscule, with the second placed much higher than the letters either side of it. |
| Legibility: | poor Macalister/1949, 51: `The inscription...has now completely disappeared'. |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |