Corpus Refs: | Higgins/1987:92 Macalister/1949:539 |
Site: | KBRCN |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1878 Petrie, G. |
History: | |
Geology: | Higgins/1987, 372: `limestone'. |
Dimensions: | 0.82 x 0.32 x 0.12 (Higgins/1987) |
Setting: | in ground |
Location: | earliest Higgins/1987, 372: 'This stone is located within the graveyard at Temple Brecan some distance to the S. E. of Temple Brecan itself, on Inishmore, Aran Islands'. |
Form: | cross-slab |
Condition: | complete , good |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: latin; inc; expanded; expanded; curved; none; inner curv; angular; plain |
Decorations: | Higgins/1987, 372, comments on the ornament on the arms and ring of the cross: `The head of the cross has rectangular terminals and has three lobes or rolls, one in each of the interspaces between the arm and the ring'. Macalister/1949, 7--8: `bearing a wheel-cross potent, on a pyramidal base: ornamented rolls projecting into the spaces between the wheel and the side of the cross, three in each canton'. |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1949): | TOM || A || SA~P~ Expansion: TOMAS APOSTOLUS Expansion: TOMAS AB Macalister/1949 8--9 concise discussion |
Higgins, J.G. (1987): | TOM || A || SA~P~ Expansion: TOMAS APOSTOLUS Higgins/1987 372 concise discussion |
Orientation: | horizontal |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; mixed ; separated Higgins/1987, 372: `The inscription runs horizontally across the slab and cuts across the shaft of the cross'. |
Incision: | pocked Higgins/1987, 372: `The whole of the design including the inscription has been executed with a small pocking tool, probably a point'. |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Latin (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | CISP: The lettering is half-uncial. The initial T has a curved ascender and a flat top-stroke. The S is half-uncial, the As minuscule and the M is minuscule with an almost flat single top stroke. The P has a rounded open bow. |
Legibility: | good |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | n |
Doubtful: | no |