| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1945:365 Nash-Williams/1950:149 |
| Site: | LBOID |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1696 Lhuyd, E. |
| History: | Owen/1896, 132, records that the stone was seen on site by Edward Lhuyd, and in 1742 was described by Lewis Morris as `pitched on end in Llanboydy steeple'. Rhys/1875, 360, states that the stone had by then been built into the church, where it still is. National Museum of Wales cast no. 14.306/33. |
| Geology: | Macalister/1945, 349: `granite'. |
| Dimensions: | 0.89 x 0.39 x 0.0 (converted from Nash-Williams/1950, 113) |
| Setting: | in struct |
| Location: | on site Macalister/1945, 365: `embedded, as part of the filling of a blocked doorway between two windows, in the outer face of the S. wall of the nave of the church'. Nash-Williams/1950, 113: `built into church in blocked doorway in S. wall of nave'. |
| Form: | plain |
| Condition: | incomplete , some Nash-Williams/1950, 113: `the upper (?lower) end partly fractured away'. Rhys/1875, 360: `the top of the stone is broken'. Westwood/1879, 87: `it is in a very defaced condition'. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | no other decoration |
| Morris, L. (1742): | MAVOHE{N}I | FIL{I}LV{N}AR{I} | HCCOD{I}FUS Expansion: MAVOHENI | FILI LVNARI | [HC CODIFUS] Owen/1896 132--133 reading only |
| Rhys, J. (1875): | MAVOH[--] | FIL{I}LV{N}AR | H{I}COCC{I} Expansion: MAVOH[--] | FILI LVNAR[C]HI COCCI Rhys/1875 360 reading only |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | MAVOHEN{I} | FIL{I}LVNAR{I} | H{I}COCC{I}FVS Expansion: MAVOHENI | FILI LVNARI | HI COCCI [FUS] Macalister/1945 349 reading only |
| Nash-Williams, V.E. (1950): | MAVOHEN{I} | FIL{I}LVNAR[C] | H{I}COCC{I} Expansion: MAVOHENI | FILI LVNARC | HI COCCI Translation: (The stone) of Mavohenus (PN), son of Lunarchus Coccus (PN). Nash-Williams/1950 113 reading only |
| Orientation: | vertical up |
| Position: | inc ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated |
| Incision: | pocked Nash-Williams/1950, 113: `rather coarsely, but lightly picked'. |
| Date: | 566 - 599 (Nash-Williams/1950) 566 - 599 (Jackson/1953) 500 - 599 (Thomas/1994) |
| Language: | Latin (rcaps) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | Rhys/1875, 360: `letters tending to Hiberno-Saxon'. Macalister/1945, 349: `mixed capitals and half-uncials'. Nash-Williams/1950, 113: `Mixed Roman capitals and half-uncials (E?, H, M, N)...with horizontal final -Is'. The M is of the `comb' variety, the A has an angle-bar, the H is half-uncial. The FI of FILI is conjoined, and the final I is horizontal. The N of LUNAR[..] is H-shaped, and the R has an open bow, and perhaps a short oblique stroke. In the third line we have another half-uncial H and two horizontal I's. |
| Legibility: | some Westwood/1879, 87: 'the letters cannot be made out without much uncertainty'. Rhys/1875, 360: `the first line is incomplete'. Of what remains the text seems quite clear. |
| Lines: | 3 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |
Jackson/1953, 521, states that -HENI, was from *-senos, showing change from -s to -h. Jackson also translates the name as `Old Lad'.
Jackson/1953, 570, one the basis of reading the name LUNARI, and not Nash-Williams/1950, 113, LUNAR[C?]HI, argues that this name cannot indicate the time by which rc had become rch, which is what Rhys/1879, 61, argues for.