KNBOY/8

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1945:299
Site:KNBOY
Discovery:first mentioned, 1907 Macalister, R.A.S.
History:Macalister/1945, 289: `When I visited this stone in the company of the late Mr. R. J. Ussher, of Cappagh, many years ago, it lay on the lawn of Salterbridge House. Mr. Richard Chearnley, Salterbridge, then the proprietor of the estate (which includes the site of Seskinan church), told us that it had come from that building...I revisited Salterbridge in 1940 for the purpose of checking my former reading, but learnt that the stone could no longer be found.'
Geology:
Dimensions:0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 (Unknown)
Setting:Lost (present 1907, missing 1940)
Location:Macalister/1945, 289: `I revisted Salterbridge in 1940 for the purpose of checking my former reading but learnt that the stone could not be found'.
Form:plain
Macalister/1945, 289: `It was evidently the broken-off top of a pillar-stone'.
Condition:frgmntry , n/a
Folklore:none
Crosses:none
Decorations:no other decoration

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Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1907):--][E!]MONGEDIAS ||| MAQ ||| IMUIBITI
Expansion:
[MAQI] MONGEDIAS MAQI MUIBITI
Macalister/1945 289 reading only
Ziegler/1994 277 listing

Notes

Orientation:vertical up along down
Position:n/a ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated
Incision:inc
Date:400 - 500 (Ziegler/1994)
Dating based on the linguistics of the two names Mongedias and Muibiti (Ziegler/1994, 209 and 212--213).
Language:Incomplete Information (ogham)
Ling. Notes:none
Palaeography:Macalister/1945, 289: `The prefixed MAQI is purely conjectural: nothing is left of it but the last two vowel-notches.'
Legibility:n/a
Lines:1
Carving errors:n
Doubtful:no

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