TOURP/44

Corpus Refs:Okasha/Forsyth/2001:Toureen Peacaun 43
Site:TOURP
Discovery:first mentioned, 2001 Okasha, E. and Forsyth, K.
History:Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 300: `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. 73; see illustration [p. 300]), the stone is shown built into the east interior wall of the church to the right of slab 1 [TOURP/21], above slab 2 [TOURP/2]. The stone presumably fell out of the wall and dissappeared before repair work was done to the east wall in 1986-87'.
Geology:Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 322: `sandstone'.
Dimensions:0.16 x 0.25 x 0.0 (Okasha/Forsyth/2001)
Setting:Lost (present 1960, missing 1986)
Location:Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 300, shows that the stone was photographed in the 1960s, but that it was missing by 1986/87.
Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 300: `The stone is now lost'.
Form:other
Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 300: `The stone was part of a slab of unknown form'.
Condition:frgmntry , n/a
Folklore:none
Crosses:none
Decorations:no other decoration

References


Inscriptions


TOURP/44/1

Readings

Okasha and Forsyth (2001):[--]MNE[.]
Expansion:
[--]MNE[.]
Okasha/Forsyth/2001 301 reading only

Notes

Orientation:Indeterminate
Position:n/a ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated
Incision:
Date:None published
Language:Indeterminate (rbook)
Ling. Notes:Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 301: `The text ... cannot now be reconstructed'.
Palaeography:Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 300: `The text appears to have been in half-uncial script'.

CISP: The lettering is half-uncial. The M and N are in the rounded minuscule forms. The E is is in the closed minuscule form, found elsewhere at Toureen Peacaun only on TOURP/43.

Legibility:n/a
Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 300: `The text appears to have been ... legible'.
Lines:1
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

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