Ekeby nr. Dalhem / Ekiby

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Results: 136 records

B01: Old Testament - Genesis from the creation to the expulsion from paradise, and later years of Adam and Eve - Temptation and Fall - Adam, Eve and the Serpent - God's Warning to Adam

Scene Description: The lower part of this composition shows God enthroned, is haloed with a cross. His hands are stretched toward the left pulling out Eve. Adam lies sleeping diagonally, facing left with arms bent at the elbows at 90* angle. Above the scene is a horizontal ledge, on which three figures appear (angels). In the spandrel to the left, an angel in profile, haloed blows a trumpet. Spandrel to the right, two figures, face to face, embrace and they have very long braids. The Visitation scene in the spandrel. This program moves from the right to the left.

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

B01: Old Testament - Genesis from the creation to the expulsion from paradise, and later years of Adam and Eve - Temptation and Fall - Adam, Eve and the Serpent - God's Warning to Adam - detail

Scene Description: the serpent has three bodies, or there are three serpents around the tree

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

B01: Old Testament - Genesis from the creation to the expulsion from paradise, and later years of Adam and Eve - Temptation and Fall - Adam, Eve and the Serpent - God's Warning to Adam - detail

a shelf-like division above the main scene has two nondescript human heads on the sides, while the centre has a human, upper body only, the right hand holding up a large key in a ring

Scene Description: a shelf-like division above the main scene has two nondescript human heads on the sides, while the centre has a human, upper body only, the right hand holding up a large key in a ring

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

B02: Old Testament - Genesis from the creation to the expulsion from paradise, and later years of Adam and Eve - Creation of Eve - Eve emerges from Adam's body

Eve sits or another figures sits to the right on a rock. This figure holds the hand to the mouth (eating??) or doubting?? Next to the left, a figure,probably Adam stretches his hand up to the tree of knowledge. A serpent encircles the tree like acanthus. To the left of the tree stands a figure, maybe an angel with one hand raised holding something - ? Over this scene, above the ledge, on each side a head, plain head, in the centre a bust like figure. The right hand bent up at elbow, holding a key in a loop. In the spandrel to the left, an angel holds its wings.

Scene Description: Eve sits or another figures sits to the right on a rock. This figure holds the hand to the mouth (eating??) or doubting?? Next to the left, a figure,probably Adam stretches his hand up to the tree of knowledge. A serpent encircles the tree like acanthus. To the left of the tree stands a figure, maybe an angel with one hand raised holding something - ? Over this scene, above the ledge, on each side a head, plain head, in the centre a bust like figure. The right hand bent up at elbow, holding a key in a loop. In the spandrel to the left, an angel holds its wings.

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

B02: Old Testament - Genesis from the creation to the expulsion from paradise, and later years of Adam and Eve - Creation of Eve - Eve emerges from Adam's body - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

B02: Old Testament - Genesis from the creation to the expulsion from paradise, and later years of Adam and Eve - Creation of Eve - Eve emerges from Adam's body - detail

as in the previous scene, three human figures above the main scene, on a shelf; here all three are busts without identifying details

Scene Description: as in the previous scene, three human figures above the main scene, on a shelf; here all three are busts without identifying details

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

B03: Old Testament - Genesis from the creation to the expulsion from paradise, and later years of Adam and Eve - Creation of Adam - God holding lump of clay

Christ sits to the right, on a throne. Haloed, crossed. Stretches his arm out and holds a round object - creation of Adam from clay. Angel assists.

Scene Description: Christ sits to the right, on a throne. Haloed, crossed. Stretches his arm out and holds a round object - creation of Adam from clay. Angel assists.

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

B03: Old Testament - Genesis from the creation to the expulsion from paradise, and later years of Adam and Eve - Creation of Adam - God holding lump of clay - detail

Scene Description: on the lower part of the scene, between God's and the angel's feet, a building (church?)

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

B04: Old Testament - Genesis - six days of creation - creation of the firmament and division of the waters above and below it - angels assisting God

Christ in Majesty - thrones vary slightly from the next scene. Spandrel to the left has an angel in orant pose; the spandrel on the right has a lion -- a mirror image of the scene to the right? -- the scene, especially the central part, is much damaged

Scene Description: Christ in Majesty - thrones vary slightly from the next scene. Spandrel to the left has an angel in orant pose; the spandrel on the right has a lion -- a mirror image of the scene to the right? -- the scene, especially the central part, is much damaged

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

B05: Old Testament - Genesis - six days of creation - angels assisting God - or the fall of the angels

Christ in Majesty - throne differs. Angels either working or falling (in the scene, the angel on the left, has two pairs of wings (seraphim?), crossed in a circle manner, up and down; the angel on the right, 'falling') -- in the left and right spandrels, single lions -- a mirror image of the scene to the left?

Scene Description: Christ in Majesty - throne differs. Angels either working or falling (in the scene, the angel on the left, has two pairs of wings (seraphim?), crossed in a circle manner, up and down; the angel on the right, 'falling') -- in the left and right spandrels, single lions -- a mirror image of the scene to the left?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

B06: Old Testament - Genesis - the six days of creation (Genesis 1:3-25) - God enthroned

Christ in Majesty sits on a bench-like throne, a thick slab of stone resting on three rows of round balls; Christ is robed, wears a mantle, no feet visible, haloed with cross in it; His right hand raises up from elbow, two fingers in benediction; the left hand to the chest holding a small rectangular scroll; att his right and left are 4-winged seraphim, the wings cross folded; on the arch above him, a Latin cross; in the left spandrel, a lion; in the right, an angel holding its open wings

Scene Description: Christ in Majesty sits on a bench-like throne, a thick slab of stone resting on three rows of round balls; Christ is robed, wears a mantle, no feet visible, haloed with cross in it; His right hand raises up from elbow, two fingers in benediction; the left hand to the chest holding a small rectangular scroll; att his right and left are 4-winged seraphim, the wings cross folded; on the arch above him, a Latin cross; in the left spandrel, a lion; in the right, an angel holding its open wings

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

BS01: angel - blowing horn, oliphant or trumpet

Scene Description: an angel in profile, haloed blows a trumpet

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

BS01: angel - blowing horn, oliphant or trumpet - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

BS02: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Visitation - embracing

Scene Description: Spandrel to the right, two figures, face to face, and with long braids, embrace; Visitation scene

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

BS02: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Visitation - embracing

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

BS03: angel - orant - showing wings

Scene Description: haloed

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

BS03: angel - orant - showing wings

Scene Description: haloed

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

BS04: animal - mammal - lion

Scene Description: in a non-traditional pose (not quite rampant, nor regardant,...), sort of twisting on itself; the head towards the left

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

BS05: animal - mammal - lion

like the one in the spandrel to the left, but this one has the head on the right -- like the scenes themselves, these appear to mirror each other

Scene Description: like the one in the spandrel to the left, but this one has the head on the right -- like the scenes themselves, these appear to mirror each other

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

BS05: animal - mammal - lion

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

BS06: angel - showing wings - holding wings

Scene Description: an angel holds its open wings; not haloed

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

BS06: angel - showing wings - holding wings

Scene Description: this angel does not appear haloed

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

BU01: animal - mammal - lion - passant

Scene Description: facing left

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

BU02: design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis and/or trefoil

Scene Description: an acanthus plant with an iverted fleur de lis inside a heart-shape

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

BU03: design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis and/or trefoil

Scene Description: an acanthus plant with a fleur de lis upright and a cinquefoil upside-down below

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

BU04: design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis and/or trefoil

Scene Description: an acanthus plant with a fleur de lis raised on two diagonal stems

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

BU05: design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis and/or trefoil

Scene Description: in an acanthus plant

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

LB01: Old Testament - Story of Moses - Exodus - holding staff, tablets or serpent

on the east side of the base -- orientation is approximate -- Haloed person, full frontal, standing figure - Moses (?): the tablets to the left - to the right, a staff and hanging bag

Scene Description: on the east side of the base -- orientation is approximate -- Haloed person, full frontal, standing figure - Moses (?): the tablets to the left - to the right, a staff and hanging bag

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

LB02: cleric - bishop - standing - wearing mitre - holding staff - detail

Scene Description: on the west side of the base -- orientation is approximate

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

LB02: cleric - bishop - wearing mitre - holding staff

Scene Description: on the west side of the base -- orientation is approximate -- full frontal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

LB02: symbol - plant - Tree of life?

Scene Description: on the north side of the font -- oriention is approximate -- acanthus with fleur de lis atop; Tree of Life (?)

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

LB03: Apostle or saint - St. Lawrence - martyrdom?

on the south side of the base -- oreintation is approximate -- the martyrdom of St.Lars/Lawrence?: three figures standing behind the rack; the centre figure wears conical hat (a Jew's hat); the other two figures torturing the saint, who lies supine on a rack.

Scene Description: on the south side of the base -- oreintation is approximate -- the martyrdom of St.Lars/Lawrence?: three figures standing behind the rack; the centre figure wears conical hat (a Jew's hat); the other two figures torturing the saint, who lies supine on a rack.

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

LB03: Apostle or saint - St. Lawrence - martyrdom? - detail

Scene Description: a Jew's hat?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

LBH01: animal - fighting - 2

Scene Description: on the northeast side of the base -- orientation is approximate -- the two animals appear to be quadrupeds

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

LBH01: animal - fighting - 2 - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

LBH01: animal - fighting - 2 - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

LBH02: animal - unidentified - with prey in its mouth

on the northwest side of the base -- orientation is approximate -- the head resembles a saurian with large fangs; the prey is a quadruped with a quasi-human face

Scene Description: on the northwest side of the base -- orientation is approximate -- the head resembles a saurian with large fangs; the prey is a quadruped with a quasi-human face

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

LBH03: animal - unidentified - with prey in its mouth

on the southwest side of the base -- orientation is approximate -- side view: the animal could be a bear; the prey appears animal as well; too eroded for identificantion

Scene Description: on the southwest side of the base -- orientation is approximate -- side view: the animal could be a bear; the prey appears animal as well; too eroded for identificantion

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

LBH03: animal - unidentified - with prey in its mouth

on the southwest side of the base -- orientation is approximate -- front view: the animal could be a bear; the prey appears animal as well; too eroded for identificantion

Scene Description: on the southwest side of the base -- orientation is approximate -- front view: the animal could be a bear; the prey appears animal as well; too eroded for identificantion

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

LBH04: Old Testament - the time of Samson - the book of Judges - Samson - fighting a lion - riding the lion

on the southeast corner of the base [orientation is approximate] -- the figure on the left: is it Delilah? or is the whole scene a conflation

Scene Description: on the southeast corner of the base [orientation is approximate] -- the figure on the left: is it Delilah? or is the whole scene a conflation

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

LBH04: Old Testament - the time of Samson - the book of Judges - Samson - fighting a lion - riding the lion

on the southeast side of the base -- orientation is approximate -- angle grouping: Samson with long hair fighting the lion. He is on the right with the lion and on his side is a woman who apeears to be devoured by a large fish - figure has long, long braid. Her robes fly backward - Delilah?

Scene Description: on the southeast side of the base -- orientation is approximate -- angle grouping: Samson with long hair fighting the lion. He is on the right with the lion and on his side is a woman who apeears to be devoured by a large fish - figure has long, long braid. Her robes fly backward - Delilah?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

LBH04: Old Testament - the time of Samson - the book of Judges - Samson - fighting a lion - riding the lion

Scene Description: top view of the grouping: the figure on the laft has a long braid (Delilah?); the figure on the right has long hair (Samson?)

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

LBH04: Old Testament - the time of Samson - the book of Judges - Samson - fighting a lion - riding the lion

Scene Description: both human figures visible from the right side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

LBH04: Old Testament - the time of Samson - the book of Judges - Samson - fighting a lion - riding the lion

Scene Description: a human riding a lion pulls its head with his hands at the mouth of the beast; long hair on the human head; Samson?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

design element - architectural - arcade - 6 arches - columns - with capitals and bases - columns with torsade pattern ornamentation

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis

Scene Description: among other floral and foliage motifs

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

design element - motifs - floral and foliage

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

information

Image Source: field-notes taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

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Image Source: field-notes taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

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Image Source: field-notes taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

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Scene Description: in Runic characters [BSI internal note: check Morven files for transciption]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

view of base - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Simson och lejonet"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910506F3] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910506F3#] [accessed 21 December 2020]

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view of base - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Simson och lejonet"

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view of base - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Laurentius martyrium"

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view of base - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Laurentius martyrium"

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view of base - east side

Scene Description: orientation is approximate -- Samson fighting the lion (?) on the left; Moses (?) in the centre; zoomachia on the right

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

view of base - east side

Scene Description: orientation is approximate -- Samson fighting the lion (?) on the left; Moses (?) in the centre; zoomachia on the right

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

view of base - north side

Scene Description: orientation is approximate -- an acanthus plant with a fleur de lis atop: Tree of Life (?)

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

view of base - west side

Scene Description: orientation is approximate -- a bishop (?)

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "scen ur skapelseberättelsen"

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "scen ur skapelseberättelsen"

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Scene Description: Source caption: "scen ur skapelseberättelsen"

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Scene Description: Source caption: "scen ur skapelseberättelsen"

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Scene Description: Source caption: "scen ur skapelseberättelsen"

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Scene Description: Source caption: "scen ur skapelseberättelsen"

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Scene Description: Source caption: "scen ur skapelseberättelsen"

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "scen ur skapelseberättelsen"

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Gud skapar Eva"

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Gud skapar Eva"

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Gud skapar Eva"

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "syndafallet"

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Scene Description: Source caption: "syndafallet"

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "syndafallet"

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "ängel - svickelfigur"

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "ängel - svickelfigur"

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view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 August 2007 by Wolfgang Sauber [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gotland-Ekeby_kyrka_Gesamtansicht.jpg] [accessed 21 September 2012]

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view of church exterior - west portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - north side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - north side - aumbry - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - north side - aumbry - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - north side - aumbry - detail

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view of church interior - chancel - north side - aumbry - detail

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view of church interior - chancel - north side - aumbry - detail

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - painting

Scene Description: and a respond on the south wall

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

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view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

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view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

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view of church interior - pulpit

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view of church interior - retable

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view of church interior - stone

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view of church interior - stone - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

view of font

Scene Description: showing the three levels of decoration

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

view of font

Scene Description: showing the three levels of decoration

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

view of font

Scene Description: showing the three levels of decoration

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

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Scene Description: showing the three levels of decoration

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

view of font

Scene Description: showing the three levels of decoration

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

view of font

Scene Description: showing the three levels of decoration

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

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Scene Description: showing the three levels of decoration

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

view of font

Scene Description: showing the three levels of decoration

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

view of font

Scene Description: showing the three levels of decoration

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

view of font

Scene Description: showing the three levels of decoration

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

view of font

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view of font

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view of font - east side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - north side

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view of font - northeast side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - northwest side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - northwest side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - south side

Scene Description: orientation is approximate -- the martyrdom of St. Lawrence (?)

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - southwest side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - west side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

view of iconographic program

Scene Description: on-site sketch (MT) starting on the east side, left-to-right

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 00010EKE

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Ekeby kyrka

Church Location: 260 51 Ekeby, Gotland, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 42 760 35

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Gotland, Gotllands län

Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Dalhem, E of Visby, in the N area of the island

Ecclesiastic Region: Visby stift

Historical Region: Dalhem district, Halla ting, Gotlands län

Font Location in Church: In its original location in the western tower. Today an upper storey has been built over the font which holds the organ.

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Majestatis or Tryde master?

Church Notes: The church has ornately painted walls and some 13thC stained glass windows.

Font Notes: Click to view

Nordstrom (1984) notes the appearance of Samson and the Lions. Carlsson (1976) mentions "a corner-figure, gripping a lion on ther font-base at Ekeby [...] shown together with Samson tearing up a tree." Noted in Lundberg (1937), Fåhraeus (1974), Stenström (1975), Eriksson (1980) and Svaberg (1995). Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910506F3] as a baptismal font made of sandstone in the mid-12th century; the SHM entry notes Roosval's attribution of a part of the font to the Majestatis master and points out the composite nature of the object in three unmatched blocks. On-site notes: there are six arches around the upper bowl, which contain scenes; two of the arches have an additional shelf-like space above the main scene, each with three human figures [cf. Images area for details]. The underside of the bowl has a single lion and four acanthus and fleur-de-lis combinations. The lower base has four bulging groupings at the angles [cf. Images area for details] and, on the sides, Moses (?), a Tree of Life (?), a bishop (?) and the martyrdom of St. Lars/Lawrence (?) [all identifications are thwarted by the eroded state of the stone]; the font appears to be made of three unmatched blocks.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.595139, 18.514667

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 35′ 42.5″ N, 18° 30′ 52.8″ E

UTM: 34V 351459 6386358

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Number of Pieces: three

Font Shape: round (mounted) -- chalice-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 7-7.5 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 46.5-47 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 60-61.5 cm* / 60 cm**

Basin Depth: 24 cm*

Height of Basin Side: 31 cm*

Basin Total Height: 49 cm*

Height of Base: 59 cm*

Height of Central Column: 41-42 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 110-111 cm* / 110 cm** [90 cm* / 88 cm** w/o lower base]

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910506F3]

REFERENCES

Borelius, Aron, "Problemet Majestatis", Norrköpings museum. Berättelse över verksamheten jämte bifogade skrifter, [Norrköping?]: [Norrköpings Museum?], 1949

Carlsson, Frans, The Iconology of Tectonics in Romanesque Art, Hässleholm: AM-Tryck, 1976

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Fåhraeus, Fredrik, "Dopfuntarna, deras tillbehör och placering på Gotland under medeltiden. En inventering.", Stockholm, 1974

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