What is recorded here
Mosaic of two lives, one vessel, two rhythms. Heris sonthia, Eochu rhythm, an unnamed woman, and a child yet unborn. Two lives in one vessel, two rhythms in one body. The chamber holds both, not one or the other.
Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00197
Dimensions: H 1ft 11.5ins, W 1ft 4ins, T 2.21ins
Hollow angled ring cross which terminates in spirals. Macalister suggests that it was done by the same hand as CLN00196.
No inscription.
Evidence of discovery: Macalister 1898-1905.
Condition: Now lost.. 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
9th- to 10th-century AD; the hollow angled ring cross with spiral terminals is typical of High Cross art and may have had a Christian liturgical or commemorative function.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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