Locknevi
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B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation
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B02: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Visitation - embracing
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B03: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Nativity
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B04: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Christ's first bath
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B05: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings
Scene Description: Madonna and Child full front, with the first two Magi in profile; to the right is part of the next scene, the Dream of the Magi
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B05: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings
Scene Description: the three Magi carrying gifts walk towards the Madonna and Child on the right
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B06: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - the three Wise Men are warned in a dream by an angel not to return to Herod
B07: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - journey of the Wise men - departing on horseback
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LBF01: Old Testament - Abraham as father of all believers
Scene Description: he is located directly beneath the Dream of the Magi
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LBF02: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Peter - holding 2 keys
Scene Description: much damaged now, but the two keys are still discernible -- located directly beneath the departing Magi scene on the basin
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910611F2&g=1] [accessed 25 December 2014]
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LBF03: cleric - bishop - with book
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LBF04: New Testament - Virgin Mary - Madonna with Christ-child
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view of basin - detail
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Scene Description: Dream of the Magi
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Scene Description: Departure of the Magi; detail
view of basin - detail
Scene Description: Departure of the Magi
view of basin - detail
Scene Description: Adoration of the Magi
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Scene Description: Nativity and First Bath
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Scene Description: Annunciation and Visitation
view of church exterior - north view
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view of church exterior in context - northwest view
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Scene Description: the side facing west, showing a partial view of the Adoration of the Magi on the left, and the Dream of the Magi on the right
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Raine Borg, 2002
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00049LOC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1200-
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Sighraf / Sighrafr / Sigraf
Church / Chapel Name: Locknevi kyrka
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel, S side
Church Address: Locknevi Församling 150, 598 94 Vimmerby, Sweden
Site Location: Småland, Kalmar län, Sweden, Europe
Directions to Site: Located N of highway 40, E of 23, in the municipality and about 20 km NE of Vimmerby
Ecclesiastic Region: Linköpings stift
Historical Region: Södra Tjusts härad
Additional Comments: Measurements and Notes were taken in 1990 trip; later added to the database.
Font Notes:
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Roosval (1925) gives date 1177-188. Noted in Blomqvist (1929) with date in the early-13th century. Studied and illustrated in Swartling (1971), with attribution to Sighraf. Noted in Nordström (1984). Inventoried and illustrated in Borg (2002) with date ca. 1180. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910611F2] as a baptismal font made of sandstone in the last quarter of the 12th century, the base vandalised with heads broken off. On-site notes: chalice-shaped baptismal font of the Sighraf workshop; the basin is cylindrical and ornamented with scenes from the Childhood of Christ: Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity, Christ's first bath, Adoration of the Magi, Dream of the Magi, departure of the Magi; the underbowl is plain, as are the sides of the base between the damaged corner figures of the base [NB: it is not clear that they were so originally; may just have been eroded or erased]. There is an inscription on the upper rim; now unreadable. No cover present.
COORDINATES
UTM: 33V 564179 6406688
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 57.7976, 16.079714
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 57° 47′ 51.36″ N, 16° 4′ 46.97″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone (Gotland's)
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: chalice-shaped, cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin & base
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 7.5 cm***
Diameter (inside rim): 63 cm* / ***
Diameter (includes rim): 77 cm* / ** / 78 cm***
Basin Depth: 42 cm*
Height of Basin Side: 34 cm*
Basin Total Height: 51 cm*
Height of Base: 27 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 78 cm* / ** / ***
Square Base Dimensions: 47 x 48 cm***
Notes on Measurements: * Borg (2002) / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910611F2] / *** BSI on-site
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Location: upper rim
Inscription Text: [unreadable]
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Blomqvist, Ragnar, Studier i Smålands romanska stenkonst, 1929, p. 126
- Borg, Raine, Smålands medeltida dopfuntar, Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2002, vol. 2: 284-285
- Eriksson, Torkel, ""Kristi forsta dop": Nordiska transformationer av ett bysantinskt delmotiv", Kristusfremstillinger: foredrag holdt ved det 5 nordiske symposium for ikonografiske studier pa Fuglsang 29 aug. - 3 sept. 1976., 1980, p. 76, 81
- Nordström, Folke, Mediaeval Baptismal Fonts: An Iconographical Study, Stockholm: Universitetet i Umeå, 1984, p. 85, 102
- Roosval, Johnny, "Revision av Gotländska dateringar II", 1925, Fornvännen: tidskrift för Svensk antikvarisk forskning, 1925, pp. 295-308; p. 297
- Svanberg, Jan, "Stenskulpturen", Den Romanska Konsten, Lund: Bokförlaget Signum, 1995, p. 205
- Swartling, Ingrid, "En Sighraf-funt i Locknevi kyrka", year 1971, Fornvännen. Tidskrift for Svensk Antikvarisk Forskning, 1971