| Corpus Refs: | Costa/1964:211 |
| Site: | VRTOU |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1866 Marionneau, C. |
| History: | Costa/1964, no. 211, argues that the stone was found by Ch. Marionneau in 1866 in the priory of Saint-Pierre at Vertou. Guigon/1994, 75, states that the stone is now conserved in the Dobrée Museum. |
| Geology: | Costa/1964, 211, `schiste ardoisier'. |
| Dimensions: | 0.16 x 0.2 x 0.15 (Costa/1964) |
| Setting: | in display |
| Location: | Musee Dobree (Cat: 900-7-1) Guigon/1994, 75, states that the stone is now conserved in the Dobrée Museum. Inventory no. 900-7-1. |
| Form: | other The stone is a small squarish epitaph. |
| Condition: | incomplete , some The bottom left-hand corner of the stone has been broken away and is lost, some other damage has also taken place obscuring parts of the fourth and fifth lines. Moreover, we cannot know how much further the stone continued as the fifth line ends with BO and cannot be the end of the inscription. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | The stone has external border lines as well as top and bottom grid-lines for the inscription. |
| Costa, D. (1964): | OBSECROU/TNU/LL{A} | MANUS: V{I}OLETPIA{I}V | [...]EPULCH/RI:D{O}N/EC{P}SO | [........]LICA:V{O}XA/BA/RCH/E | [........]REQ{U}{I}ESC{I}T:BO | [--] Expansion: OBSECRO UT NULLA MANUS VIOLET PIA IU[RA S]EPULCHRI DONEC P(ER)SO[NNET ANGE]LICA VOX AB ARCHE [CAELI HIC] REQUIESCIT BO[NAE MEMORIAE--] Costa/1964 211 reading only |
| Orientation: | horizontal |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; n/a ; quadrant The inscription is within an external border and covers the vast majority of the surface of the stone. |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | 750 - 900 (Costa/1964) 800 - 999 (Guigon/1994) |
| Language: | Latin (rcaps) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | The inscription is in decorative capitals. The letters S and C are very angular, The O is lozenge shaped; the A is sometimes with an angle-bar, other times with a downwards sloping cross bar to the right, but always with a flat cross-bar at the top. Some letters are placed inside others, such as the O within the arms of a V in line four, or the O within a D in line three, or the I within a V within a Q in line 5, or the I within a V in line 2. Ligatures also abound, while many of the letters have serifs, or ascenders which extend beyond the cross strokes such as the B in line 1 and the P in line 3. The B in line 5 has separate bows, and the H in line four has a curved cross-bar. |
| Legibility: | some All of the surviving letters are clear in spite of the damage to the third A in line 4 and the T in line 5. |
| Lines: | 5 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |