The differences between the interpretations of Harbison and Roe may be explained, in part, by the presence in panel E2 of a scene that is clearly Christ in the Tomb, while most of the other images on this face of the cross refer to scenes from the Hebrew scriptures. E2 could be seen a...
Peter Harbison puts forward the possibility that a collection of heads in the upper right-hand corner of the scene on the Scripture Cross at Clonmacnois may be women at the tomb. (Harbison, 1992, 51) There are four other images that can be identified as the “Women at the Tomb.” The...