LUGUL/2

Corpus Refs:Cuppage/etal/1986:807(2)
Macalister/1945:191
Site:LUGUL
Discovery:first mentioned, 1879 Brash, R.R.
History:
Geology:Macalister/1945, 184: `pulvinar'.
Dimensions:0.91 x 0.37 x 0.19 (converted from Macalister/1945)
Setting:in ground
Location:earliest
Macalister/1945, 184: `The middle stone in the row of three...No I [LUGUL/1] is 5' 3" from No. II [this stone]: No. II is 6' 6" from the uninscribed stone which is likewise a pulvinar'.
Form:plain
Macalister/1945, 184: `a pulvinar, but it has been split longitudinally'.
Condition:incomplete , some
Folklore:none
Crosses:none
Decorations:no other decoration

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Inscriptions


LUGUL/2/1     Pictures

Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1945):GAMICUNAS
Expansion:
GAMICUNAS
Macalister/1945 184 reading only
Ziegler/1994 268 listing
Cuppage, J. (1986):GAMICUNAS
Expansion:
GAMICUNAS
Cuppage/etal/1986 255 reading only
McManus, D. (1991):GAMICUNAS
Expansion:
GAMICUNAS
McManus/1991 65 reading only

Notes

Orientation:vertical indeterminate
Position:NE ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated
Macalister/1945, 185: `on the dexter angle of the eastern face; that on the first stone [LUGUL/1] is turned in the opposite direction'.
Incision:pocked
Macalister/1945, 184: `pocked'.
Date:400 - 500 (Ziegler/1994)
Based on the linguistics of the name (Ziegler/1994, 182; zeitstufe I).
366 - 433 (McManus/1991)
See McManus/1991, 93--94.
Language:name only (ogham)
Ling. Notes:See McManus/1991, 87, 102, 116, 117.
Palaeography:none
Legibility:good
Lines:1
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

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