| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:110 Macalister/1949:677 Petrie/1872:36 |
| Site: | CLMAC |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1872 Conyngham, B. |
| History: | Petrie/1872, 25: `This stone was drawn at Clonmacnois...by Colonel Burton Conyngham, and given to Dr. Petrie by Mr. Cooper'. Recorded as still on site in Macalister/1949, 50. |
| Geology: | |
| Dimensions: | 0.71 x 0.51 x 0.06 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
| Setting: | inc |
| Location: | on site |
| Form: | cross-slab |
| Condition: | complete , good |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | 1: latin; outline; straight; expanded; round holl; none; inner curv; none; plain |
| Decorations: | Macalister/1949, 50: `wheel cross'. |
| Petrie, G. (1872): | DUB || INSE Expansion: DUBINSE Macalister/1909 22 reading only Macalister/1949 50 reading only Petrie/1872 25 reading only |
| Orientation: | horizontal |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; within quadrants ; separated The inscription is within the two upper quadrants. |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | 814 - 1032 (Lionard/1961) |
| Language: | name only (rbook) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial. The initial D has an ascender bending leftwards over an open bow; the S is minuscule; the E is three-pronged with an elongated middle stroke, and the B is also open-bowed. |
| Legibility: | good |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |
Lionard/1961, 160, identifies the commemorand as either this lector, or a scribe from Clonmacnoise whose obit is placed in 814 in the Annals of the Four Masters.