Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1949:App. 20 Okasha/Forsyth/2001:Toureen Peacaun 58 |
Site: | TOURP |
Discovery: | arch excav, 1878 Petrie, G. |
History: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 317: `In 1878 this stone was one of several fragments `heaped up in the north-west corner of the church' .. In 1909 Crawford expressed his doubt that this stone was to be identified with stone no 14 [TOURP/4]. It seems likely that Crawford was right and that the stone was already lost then'. |
Geology: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 322: `sandstone'. |
Dimensions: | 0.155 x 0.155 x 0.0 (Okasha/Forsyth/2001) |
Setting: | Lost (present 1878, missing 1909) |
Location: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 317, shows that the stone was extant in 1878, but was lost by the time Crawford visited the site in 1909. Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 317: `The stone is now lost'. |
Form: | other Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 317: `The stone was a fragment of a slab of unknown form'. |
Condition: | frgmntry , n/a |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | none |
Decorations: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 317: `Petrie's drawinh shows no cross'. |
Okasha and Forsyth (2001): | [--]F[I]TS[--] Expansion: [--]FITS[-- Okasha/Forsyth/2001 318 reading only |
Orientation: | Indeterminate |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Indeterminate (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 318: `cannot now be interpreted'. |
Palaeography: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 317: `From Petrie's scale drawing of this stone, the text appears to have been in half-uncial script'. CISP: To judge from the published drawing the T was curved with a flat top-stroke and the S was majuscule with a slant towards the right. The F had a curved top-stroke, like that found on a number of inscriptions from the site. |
Legibility: | poor Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 317: `highly deteriorated'. |
Lines: | |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |