| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1945:247 |
| Site: | AYWAG |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1879 Casey, M. |
| History: | Macalister/1902, 50: `the greater part of the original surface was flaked off many years ago by a fire lit by some boys against the stone. An inscription discovered by Windele upon the stone...was totally destroyed'. Macalister/1945, 242: `It was reported to Windele by Matthew Casey'. Published in Brash/1879, 213. |
| Geology: | |
| Dimensions: | 1.2 x 0.6 x 0.46 (converted from Macalister/1945) |
| Setting: | in ground |
| Location: | earliest |
| Form: | name-slab |
| Condition: | inc , poor Macalister/1902, 50: `the greater part of the original surface was flaked off many years ago by a fire lit by some boys against the stone. An inscription discovered by Windele upon the stone...was totally destroyed'. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | 1: equal-armed; linear; straight; n/a; square; circular; outer curv; none; n/a |
| Decorations: | Macalister/1945, 243: `a cross in a circle'. |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | COVTET Expansion: COVTET Macalister/1902 50 minor reference Macalister/1945 273 reading only Ziegler/1994 243 reading only |
| Orientation: | Indeterminate |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; n/a ; other Macalister/1945, 243, suggests that the inscription was placed on the face of the slab. |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | unknown (oghms) |
| Ling. Notes: | Macalister/1945, 243, speaks of the `meaningless nature of the word COVTET'. Although in a footnote he states: `Prof. MacNeill has suggested an equation to Comdeth, genitive of Coimdiu the [Divine] Lord'. McManus/1991, 132, sees this inscription as a 'scholastic ogham'. |
| Palaeography: | none |
| Legibility: | poor Macalister/1945, 243: `...the letters being engraved on a stem-line running downward from a cross in a circle...[Windele] gives no indication of the relation between the inscription and the edge of the stone: his diagram, here copied, suggests an incised stem-line on the face of the slab, with a cross in a circle at the upper end - an arrangement very similar to the Glenfahan inscription [GLHAN/1], of which the preceding stone [ARDCT/2] had been reminding us. The meaningless nature of the word Covtet accords with this analogy. This inscription is no longer available: it was utterly destroyed by some boys, who lit a fire against the stone. The stone still exists but bears no markings'. |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | n |
| Doubtful: | no |