DEELI/1

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1945:106
Site:DEELI
Discovery:recognised, 1826 McCarthy
History:Macalister/1945, 107: `Found in 1826 in the entrenchment of an old burial-ground on this townland: obtained from the finder, a man named McCarthy, by Mr. Paul Horgan, of Carrigagulla, in the neighbourhood, from whom it passed through Windele's mediation in 1835 to the Royal Cork Institution, and thence found its way to the British Museum'.
Geology:
Dimensions:0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 (Unknown)
Setting:unattch
Location:British Museum (Cat: 1884,6-9,1)
Macalister/1945, 107--108: `the British Museum'.
Form:plain
Condition:incomplete , some
Macalister/1945, 108: `The bottom of the stone is broken away, carrying with it the beginnings of both lines'.
Folklore:none
Crosses:none
Decorations:no other decoration

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Inscriptions

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Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1945):[COLAB]OTMAQIMAQIRI ||| [T]E | [MAQIMU]COICORIBIRI
Expansion:
COLABOT MAQI MAQI-RITE MAQI MUCOI CORIBIRI
Macalister/1945 107--108 reading only
Ziegler/1994 260 reading only
McManus, D. (1991):--]OTMAQIMAQIRI ||| TE[-- | ]COICORIBIRI
Expansion:
--]OT MAQI MAQI-RITE[--]COI CORIBIRI
McManus/1991 95 reading only
Gippert, J. (1997):--]OTMAQIMAQIRI ||| T[E] | COICORIBI[I]
Expansion:
--]OT MAQI MAQI RIT[E] COI CORIBI[I]
Gippert/Web 106 reading only [Gippert 106]

Notes

Orientation:vertical up
Position:n/a ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated
Incision:inc
Date:533 - 599 (McManus/1991)
McManus/1991, 95, 97.
Language:Goidelic (ogham)
Ling. Notes:See McManus/1991, 88, 108.
Palaeography:Macalister/1945, 108: `inscribed on two angles (up-up): the reading is certain, though the upper ends of the two lines of writing overlap awkwardly on the top of the stone'.
Legibility:some
Gippert/Web, 106: `At the top, the inscription of the sinister angle is continued to the right to avoid an overlapping with the one on the dexter angle'.
Lines:2
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

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