ROVMO/3

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1945:126
Site:ROVMO
Discovery:in/on structure, 1866 Pitt-Rivers
History:Macalister/1945, 122: `found by Col. Lane-Fox (afterwards General Pitt-Rivers) in the souterrain of a ringfort, removed by him, and presented to the British Museum'.
Geology:
Dimensions:2.13 x 0.64 x 0.18 (converted from Macalister/1945)
Setting:in display
Location:British Museum (Cat: 1866,5-11,3)
Now in the British Museum Reserve. Accession number 1866,5-11,3.
Form:plain
Condition:incomplete , good
Macalister/1945, 123: `probably about a foot of blank butt, which would be necessary to hold the stone upright, is broken off'.
Folklore:none
Crosses:none
Decorations:no other decoration

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Inscriptions

ROVMO/3/1     Pictures

Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1945):VEDACU[NA] | [..QI]TOBIRAMUCOISOG ||| INI
Expansion:
VEDACU[NA MAQI] TOBIRA MUCOI SOGINI
Macalister/1945 123--124 reading only

Notes

Orientation:other
Position:n/a ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated
Macalister/1945, 123: `The inscription is set out in an unusual way. It begins in the middle of the sinister angle and runs down to the bottom: then crosses to the bottom of the dexter angle and runs up and on to the top'.
Incision:inc
Date:400 - 700 (Ziegler/1994)
Language:Goidelic (ogham)
Ling. Notes:See McManus/1991, 102, 104, 111, 120.
Palaeography:none
Legibility:some
Macalister/1945, 123--124: `The last two letters of the first name are broken, but enough remains for complete certainty. Of MAQI, at the beginning of the dexter line of writing, all is carried away by fracture, except the proximal ends of the Q and' the 1st and 5th strokes of the I.
Lines:1
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

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