| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1945:281 |
| Site: | DRUML |
| Discovery: | recognised, 1867 Williams, W. |
| History: | Macalister/1945, 267--268, 276: `The fourth lining stone on the western side'. Macalister also states that the stone was discovered, with the others, in 1867, but that it was not until 1936, when the souterrain was dismantled that the stones could be seen along their whole length. |
| Geology: | Macalister/1945, 276: `an unshapely mass of greenstone'. |
| Dimensions: | 0.97 x 0.66 x 0.1 (converted from Macalister/1945) |
| Setting: | in struct |
| Location: | on site Macalister/1945, 267, implies that the stone remains on the site. |
| Form: | plain Macalister/1945, 276: `an unshapely mass'. |
| Condition: | complete , some |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | no other decoration |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | SOVALINI Expansion: SOVALINI Macalister/1945 276--277 reading only Ziegler/1994 233, 276 reading only |
| Orientation: | other |
| Position: | inc ; arris ; inc ; undecorated Macalister/1945, 276: `It began on the left-hand angle and ran diagonally across the top'. |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | 500 - 700 (Ziegler/1994) |
| Language: | name only (ogham) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | none |
| Legibility: | some Macalister/1945, 276: `The stone was used twice, the older inscription having been battered away to make room for the later one. It began on the left-hand angle and ran diagonally across the top...There is a trifling uncertainty about the L, and the following I is lost, but the rest of the word remains. The N has become inverted by the crossing-over of the inscription to the back-angle'. |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | DEAGO ||| SMA ||| QIMUCO[I][--]NAI Expansion: DEAGOS MAQI MUCO[I] [--]NAI Macalister/1945 276--277 reading only Ziegler/1994 276 reading only |
| Orientation: | vertical up along down |
| Position: | inc ; arris ; inc ; undecorated Macalister/1945, 276: `inscription runs retroversely (up sinister-top-down dexter), and likewise crosses to the back angle'. |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | 400 - 550 (Ziegler/1994) |
| Language: | Goidelic (ogham) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | none |
| Legibility: | some Macalister/1945, 276--277: `Part of it is chipped away...In the gap there is room for the missing I and for seven other scores, which must have been B-scores or vowels. Three vowel-notches follow the fracture, after which come the last three letters. Valenai may be offered, not as a restoration but as a modulus by which to estimate the length of the word when complete'. |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |