THOTO/1

Corpus Refs:McManus/1991:xiv
Site:THOTO
Discovery:first mentioned, 1969 Doyle, G.
History:
Geology:
Dimensions:1.46 x 0.31 x 0.2 (McManus/1991)
Setting:in display
Location:other
McManus/1949, 73, noted that, following its discovery, this stone was `erected against an arch at the largely demolished chancel of Thomastown Church, Co. Kilkenny'.
Form:plain
Condition:complete , good
Folklore:none
Crosses:none
Decorations:no other decoration

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Inscriptions


THOTO/1/1

Readings

McManus, D. (1991):VEDDELLEMETTOMU ||| CI ||| LOGIDDEAS ||| AVVIMUNICCONA
Expansion:
VEDDELLEMETTO MUCI LOGIDDEAS AVVI MUNICCONA
Macalister/1949 73--75 concise discussion

Notes

Orientation:vertical up along down
Position:n/a ; arris ; n/a ; undivided
McManus/1991, 73: `It reads up the left-hand arris across the top and down the right in boustrophedon fashion and continues on the left-hand-side rear arris'.
Incision:cut
McManus/1991, 73: `The scores are very deeply cut'.
Date:None published
Language:Goidelic (ogham)
Ling. Notes:none
Palaeography:McManus/1991, 73: `A very light mark on the B side before the first V is unlikely to be part of the inscription and there is only one L in LOGIDDEAS (the reading in Pilsworth[/1972, 70] is LLOGIDDEAS). The scores of the U at the top of the first angle are somewhat longer than those of the vowels lower down and they look a little like H-series characters but the following C confirms that they are not. ... If MUCI is an arror for MUCOI, not MAQI/MACI, and this is suggested both by the U and the C'.

Also see McManus/1991, 95, 102, 108, 111, 115, 118, 121, 171.

Legibility:good
McManus/1991, 73: `the inscription is in extremely good condition'.
Lines:1
Carving errors:n
Doubtful:no

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