What is recorded here

Anngeni is half-erased on a broken cross slab at Clonmacnoise, the top line lost and the bottom name still sharp enough to pronounce. The fragment stands forty-two centimetres tall, no larger than a person’s outstretched hands, yet it carries a whole life into the grave field. To touch the edge is to meet the moment when stone stopped being a workshop object and became a marker for someone remembered.

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00423 Dimensions: H 0.425, W 0.45 Fragment of an outline expansional cross with slightly larger than semicircular terminal. Observe of CLN00335. Inscription: Upper line damaged. Lower line 'ANNGENI'. Macalister has it as 'TIPRAIT[EMAC] ANNGENI' Evidence of discovery: Drawn by Boxwell from a rubbing by J. Graves. Petrie 1872. Condition: Flaked/damaged fragment with part of terminal.. The Clonmacnoise inventory was compiled by the Office of Public Works. A copy of the record for this slab is available for inspection in the relevant Archaeological Survey of Ireland (SMR) file. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Dated to the early medieval period, likely 8th to 10th century AD, the cross-slab reflects Christian symbolism associated with monastic sites like Clonmacnoise. Such stones were often used as grave markers or commemorative monuments, though specific folklore or individual associations for this fragment are not recorded.

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