Inscribed slab

The National Monuments Service's description

There are 16 inscriptions in cursive or uncial lettering engraved on six stones in the passage of Tomb 1C East at Knowth and two similar inscriptions (ME019-030093-) occur on a single stone in the W tomb. The words are usually inscribed in a vertical list, and some are proper names but they are often meaningless and some could be incomplete. Corbel 40 over the backstone of the S recess of the E tomb has five names (1-5) inscribed but the last two are increasingly illegible. They are: Teimtennac, Teim, Imgm. Corbel 41 over the W orthostat in the S recess has a single inscription (6) in cursive: brc (o) (i) s. Orthostat 45 on the S side of the W recess has 7 inscriptions (7-13) in cursive: These can be read as: Conan, Snedchert, Garbleter, Soborchonbar, Scoldemab, (b)…lon, and ma (c). Inscription 14 which is on Orthostat 56 on the N side of the W recess has a single word in cursive: dub. Inscriptions No. 17 on corbel 37 and No. 18 on Corbel 49 are illegible. (Byrne 2008)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 21 September 2020

See the attached image, from Knowth 4, Plate A1:1

References

Byrne, F. J. 2008 Chapter 1, Appendix 1.2 The inscriptions in the main passage tomb at Knowth. In Byrne et al. 2008, 89-120.

Byrne, F. J., Jenkins, W., Kenny, G., and C. Swift. 2008 Excavations at Knowth 4: Historical Knowth and its Hinterland. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy