Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:242 Macalister/1949:780 Petrie/1872:114 |
Site: | CLMAC |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1822 Petrie, G. |
History: | Petrie/1872, 54: `Drawn by Dr. Petrie, at Clonmacnois, in the year 1822'. Macalister/1899, 116, records the stone as lost, as does Macalister/1909, 46, and Macalister/1949, 62. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 (Unknown) |
Setting: | Lost (present 1822, missing 1899) |
Location: | Recorded as extant in 1822 in Petrie/1872, 54, and as lost in 1899 in Macalister/1899, 116. Macalister/1899, 116, records the stone as lost, as does Macalister/1909, 46, and Macalister/1949, 62. |
Form: | cross-slab |
Condition: | n/a , n/a |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: latin; linear; straight; expanded; plain; angular; none; none; n/a 2: latin; linear; straight; expanded; plain; none; none; none; n/a 3: latin; linear; straight; expanded; plain; none; none; none; n/a |
Decorations: | Macalister/1909, 46: `A very curious stone bearing three crosslets pattee fitchée, one of them enclosed in a space singularly like a medieval shield'. Macalister/1949, 62: `Cross inverted inside a shield-shaped enclosure: two crosslets on the sinister side'. |
Petrie, G. (1822): | --]DELLACH Expansion: --]DELLACH Macalister/1909 46 reading only Macalister/1949 62 reading only Petrie/1872 53 reading only |
Orientation: | horizontal |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; above cross ; separated |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | None published |
Language: | name only (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | CISP: The lettering is Insular half-uncial. The A is in the 'OC' form and the Ls and H have wedge-shaped finials. The H is minuscule, and the D has a vertical ascender. The E is in the closed minuscule form and the Ls are curved. |
Legibility: | n/a |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |