| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1949:851 Macalister/1949:852 Petrie/1872:175 |
| Site: | GALPR |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1872 Graves, J. |
| History: | Petrie/1872, 74: `lying in a low, grassy mound...near the village of Ferbane...Drawn by M[argaret] S[tokes] from rubbings taken by the Rev. James Graves and Mr Hennessy'. Macalister/1949, 72: `In 1907 Mr. Armstrong visited the site...[and] identified...the DIAM slab [no. 851]...Mr Kendrick did not find the DIAM stone... [and that] stone is missing. But he found another slab [no. 852]...and there can be no reasonable doubt that it is the missing half of the DIAM stone'. |
| Geology: | |
| Dimensions: | 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 (Unknown) |
| Setting: | unattch |
| Location: | on site Macalister/1949, 72: `in an out-house near the gate-lodge'.
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| Form: | cross-slab |
| Condition: | frgmntry , n/a Macalister/1949, 72, argues that his no. 852 is actually the second half of no.851.
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| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | 1: equal-armed; outline; straight; mixed; circular; angular; none; inc; inc |
| Decorations: | Macalister/1949, 72, describes Petrie/1872, Fig. 175 thus: `an approximately equal-armed cross in a square'. |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1949): | DIAM[R{A}N] Expansion: DIAMRÁN Macalister/1949 72--73 reading only Petrie/1872 74, Plate LXXIII reading only |
| Orientation: | horizontal |
| Position: | inc ; broad ; within quadrants ; quadrant |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | name only (rbook) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | CISP: The lettering is Insular half-uncial. The A's are in the 'OC' form and the initial D with a vertical ascender and a separate bow stroke appears to have a wedge-shaped finial. The minuscule M and N have curved top strokes and the R is half-uncial. |
| Legibility: | poor |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |