Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:152 Macalister/1949:710 Petrie/1872:147 |
Site: | CLMAC |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1822 Petrie, G. |
History: | Petrie/1872, 66: `Drawn by Dr. Petrie at Clonmacnois, in 1822'. Recorded as still on site in Macalister/1949, 54. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 0.81 x 0.61 x 0.05 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
Setting: | inc |
Location: | on site |
Form: | cross-slab |
Condition: | complete , good |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: latin; outline; straight; half-round; circular; none; inner curv; none; decorated |
Decorations: | other Macalister/1909, 30, argues that the cross is identical with those on CLMAC/112 and CLMAC/113 and that it is a `three line cross, with circular expansions containing triskelions and blank semi-circular terminals'. |
Petrie, G. (1822): | O~R~ || DO | CH || UNN Expansion: OROIT DO CHUNN Translation: Pray for Conn (PN). Macalister/1909 30 reading only Macalister/1949 54 reading only Petrie/1872 65 reading only |
Orientation: | vertical down |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; within quadrants ; separated The inscription runs vertically down in two lines through all four quadrants. |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | 1059 - 1059 (Petrie/1872) 1059 - 1059 (Lionard/1961) |
Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial. The initial OR has a contraction mark over it; the D has an ascender which bends to the left over an open bow; the O's are spherical rather than circular and the descenders on the U and N's have wedge shaped finials. |
Legibility: | good |
Lines: | 2 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |
Lionard/1961, 167, accepts this identification.