| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1949:App. 5 Okasha/Forsyth/2001:Toureen Peacaun 19 |
| Site: | TOURP |
| Discovery: | arch excav, 1944 Duignan, M.V. |
| History: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 258: `The stone was found in the summer of 1944 during excavation at the site ... It was a stray find from the rubble around stone no. 40 (the East Cross) ... During September to December 1944 the east wall of the church was rebuilt, incorporating many of the inscribed stones, including this one. The stone has remained there since'. |
| Geology: | Macalister/1949, 213: `sandstone'. |
| Dimensions: | 0.23 x 0.3 x 0.05 (Okasha/Forsyth/2001) |
| Setting: | in struct |
| Location: | on site Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 258: `The stone is built into the interior east wall of the ruined church'. |
| Form: | cross-slab Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 258: `The stone is an apparently complete slab'. |
| Condition: | complete , some Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 258: `an apparently complete slab which has suffered damage to its lower edge'. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | 1: latin; linear; straight; expanded; plain; none; none; none; n/a |
| Decorations: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 258: `Incised on its visible face is an outline Latin cross with expanded terminals'. CISP: The drawing and photograph published in Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 258--259, make clear that the cross was linear, rather than outline, in form. |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1949): | SOADBAR Expansion: SOADBAR Macalister/1949 213 reading only |
| Okasha and Forsyth (1996): | SOADBAR Expansion: SOADBAR Translation: Soadbar (PN). Okasha/Forsyth/2001 258 reading only |
| Orientation: | horizontal |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; below cross ; undivided Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 258: `Below [the cross] is a single, complete, horizontal line of text'. |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | name only (rbook) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 258: `The text is probably half-uncial script'. CISP: The lettering is Insular half-uncial. The As are in the 'OC' form, the initial S in in the half-uncial rather than majuscule form and the B has a slightly curved ascender and an open bow. The D has an ascender which bends to the left over an open bow before curving back to the right at the top. The final R is half-uncial, with a horizontal 'foot'. |
| Legibility: | poor Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 258: `The text is ... highly deteriorated'. |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |