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Iona Abbey, museum. Cross-slab, detail of runic inscription.
AGD 23/696
Description Iona Abbey, museum. Cross-slab, detail of runic inscription.
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number AGD 23/696
Category Prints and Drawings
Copies SC 375036
Scope and Content Cross-slab from Iona, Argyll and Bute Iona is one of the most important religious sites in Scotland. The earliest community was formed by St Columba who came over from Ireland around AD 563. This was replaced by the Benedictine Abbey and Augustinian Nunnery in about AD 1200. This runic inscription (an alphabet from Scandinavia) is carved on a cross-slab in the Abbey Museum (No 42). It probably reads KALI OLVISSONR LAGPI STEIN PENNA YFIR FUGL BRODTUR (SINN) - Kali the son of Olvir laid this stone over his brother Fugl. A number of early Christian cross-incised stones and cross-slabs have been found on Iona. They were probably grave-markers, or possibly boundary-markers, with those decorated on both sides standing upright, and the rest being recumbent. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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