Corpus Refs: | Wallace/Timoney/1987:13 |
Site: | CATEM |
Discovery: | arch excav, 1986 Wallace P. et al |
History: | Wallace/Timoney/1987, 60, note that this was one of four slabs discovered in 1986. |
Geology: | Wallace/Timoney/1987, 60: `sandstone'. |
Dimensions: | 0.17 x 0.26 x 0.07 (Wallace/Timoney/1987) |
Setting: | inc |
Location: | National Musuem, Dublin Wallace/Timoney/1987, 61, state that the photo of this slab is credited to the National Museum of Ireland. This is the only indicator of where the slab might now be. |
Form: | Indeterminate Wallace/Timoney/1987, 60: `Fragment of an inscribed slab'. |
Condition: | frgmntry , inc |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | none |
Decorations: | no other decoration |
Wallace, P. et al. (1987): | --]SOR[S-- | [A]N[-- Expansion: --]SOR[S--A]N[-- Wallace/Timoney/1987 60--61 reading only |
Orientation: | Incomplete Information |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; n/a ; inc |
Incision: | pecked Wallace/Timoney/1987, 60: `inscription pecked'. |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Incomplete Information (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | Wallace/Timoney/1987, 60: `On the smoothened surface there is a pecked, two-line inscription with well executed 6cm high letters'. CISP: The S and R of the first line are both majuscule if not capitalis, the R having an open bow. The N of the second line is minuscule and has a curved top stroke and a short stroke to the left from the top of the left ascender. This combination makes it unlikely, although not impossible, that the first line was in capitalis. The more likely conclusion is that the text was in half-uncial. |
Legibility: | poor |
Lines: | 2 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |