CLMAC/203

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1909:263
Macalister/1949:799
Petrie/1872:171
Site:CLMAC
Discovery:first mentioned, 1822 Petrie, G.
History:Petrie/1872, 74: `Drawn by Dr. Petrie at Clonmacnois, in the year 1822'.

Macalister/1899, 116, records the stone as lost, as does Macalister/1909, 48, and Macalister/1949, 64.

Geology:
Dimensions:0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 (Unknown)
Setting:Lost (present 1822, missing 1872)
Location:Recorded in Petrie/1872, 73, as extant in 1822 and as lost in 1872.
Macalister/1899, 116, records the stone as lost, as does Macalister/1909, 48, and Macalister/1949, 64.
Form:cross-slab
Condition:frgmntry , inc
Macalister/1949, 64: `Lower half only'.
Folklore:none
Crosses:1: latin; interlace; straight; half-round; circular; ind; ind; half-round; decorated
Decorations:

Macalister/1909, 48: `Lower part of a seven-line cross with expanding looped terminals, more than semi-circular'.

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Inscriptions

CLMAC/203/1     Pictures

Readings

Petrie, G. (1822):[--] || ORIACAN | [--] || CORIP~
Expansion:
[OROIT D]O RIACAN[--
Translation:
Pray for Riacan, Bishop.
Petrie/1872 74, Plate LXXII, Fig. 175 reading only
Macalister, R.A.S. (1909):[O~R~D]ORIACAN[--]ICORIP[--
Expansion:
[OROIT][ D]O RIACAN[--]ICORIP[--
Macalister/1909 48 reading only
Macalister, R.A.S. (1949):ORIACAN[M]CORIP~
Expansion:
ORIACAN[M]CORIP~
Macalister/1949 64 reading only

Notes

Orientation:horizontal
Position:n/a ; broad ; beside cross ; separated
Incision:inc
Date:None published
Language:Goidelic (rbook)
Ling. Notes:none
Palaeography:CISP: Given the difference between Petrie's published drawing and reading it would be unwise to give a palaeographic desciption of this inscription. It does, however, appear to have been in Insular half-uncial.
Legibility:inc
Petrie/1872, 74, and Plate LXXII, Fig.171, provide different readings of this inscription without passing comment on the differences between figure and transcription.
Lines:2
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

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