TOURP/31

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1949:App. 23
Okasha/Forsyth/2001:Toureen Peacaun 62
Site:TOURP
Discovery:arch excav, 2001 Okasha, E. and Forsyth, K.
History:Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 322: `The stone is not recorded in any published account of the stones. In a photograph possibly dating from the 1960s, preserved in the Dúchas archive (negative no. 77: see illustration [p. 321]), the stone is shown built sideways into the east interior wall of the church, to the right of slab 11 [TOURP/33], in the place now occupied by slab 12 [TOURP/34]. The stone presumably fell out of the wall and disappeared before repair work was done to the east wallin 1986-87'.
Geology:Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 322: `sandstone'.
Dimensions:0.14 x 0.12 x 0.0 (Okasha/Forsyth/2001)
Setting:Lost (present 1960, missing 1986)
Location:Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 322, shows that the stone was photographed in the 1960s, but was missing by 1986-87.
Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 321: `The stone is now lost'.
Form:other
Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 322: `The stone was part of a slab of unknown form'.
Condition:frgmntry , n/a
Folklore:none
Crosses:none
Decorations:no other decoration

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Inscriptions


TOURP/31/1

Readings

Okasha and Forsyth (2001):[--][E]
Expansion:
[--]E
Okasha/Forsyth/2001 322 reading only

Notes

Orientation:Incomplete Information
Position:n/a ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated
Incision:inc
Date:None published
Language:Indeterminate (inc)
Ling. Notes:Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 322: `cannot now be reconstructed'.
Palaeography:Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 322: `The text may have been in capital script, but the one letter in the photograph is damaged'.

CISP: The sole letter E is in capitalis. At Toureen Peacaun this form of E could belong to either a half-uncial or a capitalis inscription.

Legibility:poor
Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 322: `The one letter in the photograph is damaged'.
Lines:1
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

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