Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:197 Macalister/1949:743 Petrie/1872:173 |
Site: | CLMAC |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1869 Graves, J. |
History: | Petrie/1872, 74: `Drawn by Miss Boxwell...found at Clonmacnois by the Rev. James Graves, in the year 1869'. Recorded as still on site in Macalister/1909, 38--39, and Macalister/1949, 59. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 0.81 x 0.66 x 0.08 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
Setting: | inc |
Location: | on site Recorded as still on site in Macalister/1949, 59. |
Form: | cross-slab |
Condition: | incomplete , poor Macalister/1909, 38--39: `Fragment...the cuttings are so much worn and clogged with lichen'. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: inc; outline; straight; half-round; circular; none; inner curv; ind; decorated |
Decorations: | geometric key pattern Macalister/1909, 39: `The centre contains a pattern which may be either an interlacing knot, or else a divergent spiral device...the two surviving terminals contain some form of key-pattern'. Macalister/1949, 59: `cross with looped ears on the sides, not at the angles, of the expansions'. |
Graves, J. (1869): | {O}R{O}IT || [-- Expansion: OROIT [-- Macalister/1909 39 reading only Macalister/1949 59 reading only Petrie/1872 74 reading only |
Orientation: | horizontal |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; within quadrants ; quadrant |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | CISP: The initial O is lozenge-shaped. The second O appears to be an attempt at a similar shape, except the bottom half is made of three angled-strokes, making the whole a pentagon. The I and T are conjoined. The T has a flat top-stroke and the bow of the T is three sides of a lozenge with the top-right panel missing. The R is majuscule. While it is likely that the whole text was in half-uncial, the surviving letters cannot rule out decorative capitals. |
Legibility: | good The letters appear clear. |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |