Abstract

A now dismembered Welsh christian Latin memorial inscription in 12 words and 64 letters was intricately constructed in ‘biblical style’—allusive, arithmetical and (except to the initiated) cryptographic. Analysis introduces this entirely new aspect of post-400 Insular epigraphy. The ‘Idnert’ memorial does not stand alone, but may be unique in its pictorial culmination. An appendix summarises related features from other memorials.

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