Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1945:247 |
Site: | AYWAG |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1879 Casey, M. |
History: | Macalister/1902, 50: `the greater part of the original surface was flaked off many years ago by a fire lit by some boys against the stone. An inscription discovered by Windele upon the stone...was totally destroyed'. Macalister/1945, 242: `It was reported to Windele by Matthew Casey'. Published in Brash/1879, 213. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 1.2 x 0.6 x 0.46 (converted from Macalister/1945) |
Setting: | in ground |
Location: | earliest |
Form: | name-slab |
Condition: | inc , poor Macalister/1902, 50: `the greater part of the original surface was flaked off many years ago by a fire lit by some boys against the stone. An inscription discovered by Windele upon the stone...was totally destroyed'. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: equal-armed; linear; straight; n/a; square; circular; outer curv; none; n/a |
Decorations: | Macalister/1945, 243: `a cross in a circle'. |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | COVTET Expansion: COVTET Macalister/1902 50 minor reference Macalister/1945 273 reading only Ziegler/1994 243 reading only |
Orientation: | Indeterminate |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; n/a ; other Macalister/1945, 243, suggests that the inscription was placed on the face of the slab. |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | None published |
Language: | unknown (oghms) |
Ling. Notes: | Macalister/1945, 243, speaks of the `meaningless nature of the word COVTET'. Although in a footnote he states: `Prof. MacNeill has suggested an equation to Comdeth, genitive of Coimdiu the [Divine] Lord'. McManus/1991, 132, sees this inscription as a 'scholastic ogham'. |
Palaeography: | none |
Legibility: | poor Macalister/1945, 243: `...the letters being engraved on a stem-line running downward from a cross in a circle...[Windele] gives no indication of the relation between the inscription and the edge of the stone: his diagram, here copied, suggests an incised stem-line on the face of the slab, with a cross in a circle at the upper end - an arrangement very similar to the Glenfahan inscription [GLHAN/1], of which the preceding stone [ARDCT/2] had been reminding us. The meaningless nature of the word Covtet accords with this analogy. This inscription is no longer available: it was utterly destroyed by some boys, who lit a fire against the stone. The stone still exists but bears no markings'. |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | n |
Doubtful: | no |