Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:98 Macalister/1949:667 Petrie/1872:106 |
Site: | CLMAC |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1822 Petrie, G. |
History: | Petrie/1872, 52: `drawn by Dr. Petrie at Clonmacnoise, in 1822'. Recorded as still on site in Macalister/1949, 50. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 0.99 x 0.66 x 0.08 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
Setting: | inc |
Location: | on site |
Form: | cross-slab |
Condition: | incomplete , some Macalister/1909, 20, speaks of a `flake of the stone' being lost. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: latin; outline; straight; expanded; plain; none; inner curv; other; plain |
Decorations: | Macalister/1909, 20: `A Celtic cross with plain centre, the sides terminating below in simple spirals'. Macalister/1949, 50: `wheel cross, spirals at lower end'. |
Petrie, G. (1822): | --]DOMNA[-- Expansion: [FER]DOMNA[CH] Petrie/1872 52 reading only |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1909): | [N][..]DOMNA Expansion: [N..]DOMNA Macalister/1909 20 reading only |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1949): | [..]DOMNA Expansion: [..]DOMNA Macalister/1949 50 reading only |
Orientation: | horizontal |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; above cross ; undivided |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Indeterminate (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | The inscription is in the two upper quadrants, as well as on the upper arm of the cross.
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Palaeography: | CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial. The A is in the `OC' form. |
Legibility: | some Macalister/1909, 20: `The inscription is injured, having lost about three initial letters by a flake of the stone...There is no evidence that there were any letters following the A, where the stone shows no sign of fracture; and two small fragments of vertical lines project below the spall'. |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |