Corpus Refs: | Henderson/Okasha/1992:14 Okasha/Forsyth/2001:Tullylease 5 |
Site: | TULYS |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1894 Leask, H.J. |
History: | Henderson/Okasha/1992, 6: `said by Leask to have been found in 1894 but to have been lost by the time he wrote (that is, before 1938)'. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 (Unknown) |
Setting: | Lost (present 1894, missing 1938) |
Location: | Recorded by Leask as found in 1894, but lost by his time (1938). |
Form: | cross-slab |
Condition: | n/a , n/a |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: inc; outline; expanded; inc; ind; angular; ind; ind; decorated |
Decorations: | Henderson/Okasha/1992, 3: `incised with part of the side-arm of a cross. The arm has concave sides, is ornamented with fret-pattern, and is attached to a frame'. |
Okasha, E. (1992): | --][C]ES[...][-- Expansion: --][C]ES[..B/D/O][-- Henderson/Okasha/1992 13, Plate 1e reading only |
Orientation: | horizontal |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; within quadrants ; quadrant Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 129: `The text appears to have been set horizontally'. |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | 733 - 766 (Okasha/Forsyth/2001) Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 130: `middle of the eighth century'. |
Language: | Indeterminate (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | Henderson/Okasha/1992, 14: `some form of manuscript script'. Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 129: `The text appears to have been in half-uncial script'. CISP: The lettering is in half-uncial. The C, E and S are all in the angular forms of these letters that appear to be distinctive to the Tullylease inscriptions. |
Legibility: | n/a Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 129: `The letters are shown as damaged'. |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |