Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:224 Macalister/1949:765 Petrie/1872:46 |
Site: | CLMAC |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1822 Petrie, G. |
History: | |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 (Unknown) |
Setting: | Lost (present , missing ) |
Location: | unknown |
Form: | fragment |
Condition: | frgmntry , inc |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: latin; outline; straight; plain; round holl; angular; inner curv; none; plain |
Decorations: | Macalister/1909, 44: `Quadrate Celtic cross, inside a Greek fret-pattern'. Macalister/1949, 61: `Quadrangular border'. |
Petrie, G. (1822): | ORO~A[R] | [--]THIN[-- Expansion: OROIT A[R][--]THIN[-- Expansion: OROIT AR MAEL-DOITHIN Petrie/1872 28 reading only |
Orientation: | horizontal |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; mixed ; undivided |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | CISP: The lettering is Insular half-uncial. The A is in the 'OC' form and the minuscule H appears to have a wedge-shaped finial. The letters of the first line are substantially larger than those of the second. The R is majuscule and the two Os are oval-shaped. The T is half-uncial with a curved ascender and a flat top-stroke. The damaged N appears to be minuscule with a rounded top stroke. |
Legibility: | inc Petrie/1872, 28: `The abbreviation used here for OROIT is singular. As only three and a half of the final letters of the name exist, it is difficult to conjecture what it was, unless it is a name that ends in thin, such as Cairrthin'. Macalister/1909, 44: `The unusual abbreviation used for OROIT strikes me as a suspicious point about this transcript'. |
Lines: | 2 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |