Hossmo / Hosmo

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2017 by Bernt Fransson, Lindås [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hossmo_kyrka.Interiör_016.jpg] [accessed 11 March 2020]

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human figure

Scene Description: defaced figure wearing rectangular purse(?) on a long rope across the chest; is this a pilgrim, as suggested in the the SHM caption "hörnfigur i pilgrimsdräkt"?

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950516F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950516F1] [accessed 1 May 2020]

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human figure - female - standing - with braided hair - wearing mantle

Scene Description: the hands appear to hold both the ends of her long braids and the sides on the long mantle

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950516F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950516F1] [accessed 1 May 2020]

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human figure - male - bearded - standing - holding object

Scene Description: long folded object

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950516F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950516F1] [accessed 1 May 2020]

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human figure - standing - 2

Scene Description: bearded male on the left -- female with long braided hair on the right

Image Source: digital image [1922-131.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hossmo_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200082028.jpg] [accessed 11 March 2020]

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human figure - standing - 2

Scene Description: defaced bearded male on the left -- defaced figure on the right wears rectangular purse(?) on a long rope across the chest; a pilgrim?

Image Source: digital image [1922-132.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hossmo_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200082029.jpg] [accessed 11 March 2020]

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inscription - partial

Image Source: digital image [1922-134.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph taken by Nils Lagergren, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hossmo_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200082035.jpg] [accessed 11 March 2020]

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inscription - partial

Image Source: digital image [1922-135.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph taken by Nils Lagergren, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hossmo_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200082037.jpg] [accessed 11 March 2020]

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view of base - projection - detail

Scene Description: the female figure and the the two dedaced ones

Image Source: digital image of a drawing by Sten Anjou, in Roosval (1917: fig. 38)

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: showing part of the Runic inscription

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950516F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950516F1] [accessed 1 May 2020]

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view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 June 2009 by Pierre p77 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hossmo_ka_portal.jpg] [accessed 11 March 2020]

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view of church exterior in context

Image Source: digital pjotograph taken 27 April 2016 by Jan Ainali [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hossmo_kyrka_20160427_01.jpg] [accessed 11 March 2020]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: the very top of the font is discernible at the far [east] end, left [north] of the altar

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2017 by Bernt Fransson, Lindås [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hossmo_kyrka.Interiör_01.jpg] [accessed 11 March 2020]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image [1922-130.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hossmo_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200082025.jpg] [accessed 11 March 2020]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image [1922-133.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph taken by Nils Lagergren, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hossmo_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200082030.jpg] [accessed 11 March 2020]

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view of font

Scene Description: the drawing shows the measurements in ft/in and a transcrition of the Runic inscription around the upper rim

Image Source: digital image [1922-136.TIF] of a [1856?] drawing in the Mandelgrenska collection in Lund, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hossmo_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200082040.jpg] [accessed 11 March 2020]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a drawing by Sten Anjou, in Roosval (1917: fig. 37)

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2008 by Ulkl [Ulf Klingström] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hossmo_kyrka_int2.jpg] [accessed 11 March 2020]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2017 by Bernt Fransson, Lindås [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hossmo_kyrka.Interiör_016.jpg] [accessed 11 March 2020]

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view of font

Scene Description: the photograph was probably taken at the time the font still at the SHM [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950516F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950516F1] [accessed 1 May 2020]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: looking west from the chancel arch

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2017 by Bernt Fransson, Lindås [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hossmo_kyrka.Interiör_06.jpg] [accessed 11 March 2020]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00186HOS

Museum and Inventory Number: Statens Historiska Museum, Stockholm

Church/Chapel: Hossmo kyrka

Church Location: Hossmo kyrkväg, 388 92 Ljungbyholm, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 480 383 60

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Småland, Kalmar län

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the E22, 3-4 km ENE of Ljungbyholm, 9-10 km WSW of Kalmar and in its municipality

Ecclesiastic Region: Växjö stift

Historical Region: Södra Möre härad

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the N pillar of the chancel arch [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Master Jacob? / Sighraf [Blomqvist, Borg]

Cognate Fonts: Borg (2002) suggests Locknevi and Hulterstad

Church Notes: stone church ca. 1120 replaced earlier wooden church; re-built ca. 1240;

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Erik Tuneld's Geografi öfver Konungariket Sverige: Småland, Gottland och Öland (1832: 1125) mentions a baptismal font with images and Runes in Hossmo. Described and illustrated by William Andersson in Roosval (1917) [NB: the font must have been returned to the church since]. In Blomqvist (1929) as a Sighraf font by master Jacob with an inscription. Jansson (1987: 171) records the Runic inscription and provides an English translation [cf. below] that names "Jakob" as the maker of the font. Inventoried and illustrated in Borg (2002) as a baptismal font made of sandstone ca. 1180, bearing an inscription in Runics [cf. supra]; Borg gives the Swedish translation. Noted and illustrated in the SHM’s database Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950516F1] as a baptismal font made of sandstone by master Jacob in the late-13th century. The font consists of a cylindrical basin plain but for a running inscription in Runic characters around the upper rim side [cf. supra]; the base is round to square, with a roll moulding at the top; four human figures decorate the corners of the base: a bearded male, perhaps a cleric; a female with long braids; a bearded male wearing long robes [very damaged]; a figure wearing long robes and a bag with a rope-strap across the chest; its face has been totally chiselled(?) off; on the lower sides, between the figures, are four large scallops. No cover present but the church has(?) three baptismal dishes for the font [cf. ImagesArea].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 56.637167, 16.225106

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 56° 38′ 13.8″ N, 16° 13′ 30.38″ E

UTM: 33V 575143 6277669

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone? / sandstone?

Number of Pieces: 2

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Diameter (inside rim): 47 cm** / ***

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

Basin Depth: 24 cm** / **

Height of Basin Side: 25.4 cm* / 26 cm***

Basin Total Height: 45.72 cm* [includes centre ring]

Height of Base: 45 cm*** [includes centre ring]

Font Height (less Plinth): 85 cm** / ***

Square Base Dimensions: 50.8 x 50.8 cm* / 50 x 50 xm***

Notes on Measurements: * in inches in a 1856(?) drawing in the Mandelgrenska collection, Lund / ** Roosval (1917: 31) / *** Borg (2002)

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: runes

Inscription Notes: Transcription of the Runes and English translation in Jansson (1987: 171). Swedish translation in Borg (2002)

Inscription Location: around the upper rim side

Inscription Text: 1) "I PRAY YOU... THAT YOU PRAY BY NAME FOR THE MAN WHO MADE ME. HE WAS CALLED JACOB" 2) "Jag beder dig, att du jämt måtte beja för den man son gjorde mig. Jakob heter han"

Inscription Source: !) Jansson (1987: 171) [cf. ImagesArea] 2) Swedish translation in Borg (2002)

REFERENCES

Blomqvist, Ragnar, Studier i Smålands romanska stenkonst, 1929

Borg, Raine, Smålands medeltida dopfuntar, Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2002

Jansson, Sven B. F., Runes in Sweden, Gidlunds, Sweden: Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, Central Board of National Antiquiries, 1987