LUNDY/3

Corpus Refs:Okasha/1993:27
Thomas/1994:1401
Site:LUNDY
Discovery:arch excav, 1962 Hague, D.B.
History:Okasha/1993, 161: `The stone was found by D.B. Hague during an investigation of Beacon Hill cemetery; it was `lying in a ditch at the south end of the cemetery'. In May 1981 the stone was moved to its present position'.
Geology:
Dimensions:0.97 x 0.29 x 0.32 (Okasha/1993)
Setting:in ground
Location:on site
Okasha/1993, 154: `The stone is now set...against an enclosure bank of Beacon Hill cemetery, Lundy Island'.
Form:cross-marked
Okasha/1993, 161: `The stone is a pillar stone'.
Condition:incomplete , some
Okasha/1993, 161: `probably incomplete...crumbled at both sides'.
Folklore:none
Crosses:1: equal-armed; linear; straight; plain; plain; none; ring; none; plain
Decorations:band

Okasha/1993, 161, refers to a cross incised within a circle. Thomas/1994, 166, has this as an inscribed circle only, which may have had a chi-rho painted within it.

References

Inscriptions

LUNDY/3/1

Readings

Thomas, C. (1969):REST | EUTA
Expansion:
RESTEUTA
Translation:
Resteuta (PN).
Thomas/1969 139 reading only
Okasha, E. (1986):RESG | EVT[A]
Expansion:
RESGEVT[A]
Translation:
[The stone] of Resgeuta (PN).
Okasha/1993 161, 163 reading only
Thomas, C. (1994):REST | EVTA[/E]
Expansion:
RESTEVTAE
Thomas/1994 166 reading only

Notes

Orientation:horizontal
Position:inc ; broad ; below cross ; panel
Okasha/1993, 161: `The text is incised in two lines inside what is probably a panel'.
Incision:inc
Date:400 - 1099 (Okasha/1993)

500 - 533 (Thomas/1994)
Language:name only (rcaps)
Ling. Notes:none
Palaeography:Okasha/1993, 161: `predominantly capital script'.

Thomas/1994, 166, suggests that there might be a final AE ligature in the second line.

Legibility:some
Okasha/1993, 161: `The text is probably complete but is rather deteriorated'.

Thomas/1994, 166, Fig 10.3, states that the final AE ligature is uncertain.

Lines:2
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

Names

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