Sjonhem No. 2 / Sianeym / Synförmåga

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B01: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Longinus? - John the Evangelist?

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 May 1997 by BSI

B02: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Luke - symbol - bull

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 May 1997 by BSI

B03: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Matthew? - symbol - angel - with scroll - Majestas Domini?

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 May 1997 by BSI

B03: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Matthew? - symbol - angel - with scroll - detail - Majestas Domini?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2012 by BSI at the Gotlands Museum [with permission]

B04: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - symbol - lion

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2012 by BSI at the Gotlands Museum [with permission]

B04: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - symbol - lion - detail

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2012 by BSI at the Gotlands Museum [with permission]

BU01: Old Testament - the story of the prophet Daniel - Daniel's punishment and liberation: Daniel in the lion's den - detail - Madonna and Child?

Scene Description: the seated figure appears to hold a bundle in his arms

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August by 2012 BSI at the Gotlands Museum [with permission]

LB01: human figure - seated - holding sword - 2

Scene Description: are they Herodias and Herod?

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 May 1997 by BSI

LB02: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings - two magi bearing gifts

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 May 1997 by BSI

LB03: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings - one magus - Madonna and Child

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 May 1997 by BSI

LB04: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - visit of the three Wise Men to King Herod - 1 Wise Man

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 May 1997 by BSI

UB01: Old Testament - the story of the prophet Daniel - Daniel's punishment and liberation: Daniel in the lion's den

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 May 1997 by BSI

UB01: Old Testament - the story of the prophet Daniel - Daniel's punishment and liberation: Daniel in the lion's den - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2012 by BSI at the Gotlands Museum [with permission]

UB02: animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon?

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 May 1997 by BSI

UB03: animal - mammal - lion - passant?

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 May 1997 by BSI

UB04: animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon?

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 May 1997 by BSI

design element - motifs - braid - 2-strand

Scene Description: a thick one, dividing the base into two registers

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 May 1997 by BSI

information

Scene Description: the museum label as displayed in August 2012

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2012 by BSI at the Gotlands Museum [with permission]

information

Scene Description: museum label

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 May 2023 by BSI

information

Image Source: field-notes taken 24 August 2012 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

information

Image Source: field-notes taken 24 August 2012 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

information

Image Source: field-notes taken 24 August 2012 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

information

Image Source: digital image of notes taken on 25 May 2018 at the Visby Museum by BSI

unidentified

Scene Description: varied carvings in the spandrels/angles of the basin and base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2012 by BSI at the Gotlands Museum [with permission]

view of base - detail

Scene Description: as displayed in the museum ca. 1918

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Roosval (1918)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of base - detail

Scene Description: as displayed in the museum ca. 1918

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Roosval (1918)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: the bottom of the inner basin is open [covered now for display]; notice the adze marks on the sides of the interior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2012 by BSI at the Gotlands Museum [with permission]

view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: notice the drilled holes in the upper rim; were they made for anchoring the cover?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2012 by BSI at the Gotlands Museum [with permission]

view of stoup

Scene Description: as displayed in the museum ca. 1918

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Roosval (1918)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of stoup

Scene Description: the former piscina from Sjonhem

Image Source: digital photograph taken on 25 May 2018 at the Visby Museum by BSI (with permission)

view of stoup

Image Source: digital photograph taken on 25 May 2018 at the Visby Museum by BSI (with permission)

view of stoup

Image Source: digital photograph taken on 25 May 2018 at the Visby Museum by BSI (with permission)

view of stoup

Scene Description: as displayed in the Visby Fornsal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 May 2023 by BSI

view of stoup

Scene Description: as displayed in the Visby Fornsal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 May 2023 by BSI

view of stoup

Scene Description: as displayed in the Visby Fornsal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 May 2023 by BSI

view of stoup - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken on 25 May 2018 at the Visby Museum by BSI (with permission)

view of stoup - front side

Scene Description: the stoup/piscina, as displayed in August 2012

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2012 by BSI at the Gotlands Museum [with permission]

view of stoup - left side

Scene Description: the stoup/piscina, as displayed in August 2012

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2012 by BSI at the Gotlands Museum [with permission]

view of stoup - side 2

Scene Description: [as displayed in 1997]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 May 1997 by BSI

view of stoup - side 3

Scene Description: [as displayed in 1997]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 May 1997 by BSI

view of stoup - side 4

Scene Description: [as displayed in 1997]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 May 1997 by BSI

view of stoup - sides 1-2

Scene Description: the stoup/piscina, as displayed in August 2012

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2012 by BSI at the Gotlands Museum [with permission]

view of stoup - sides 4-1

Scene Description: [as displayed in 1997]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 May 1997 by BSI

view of stoup in context

Scene Description: the stoup/piscina, as displayed in August 2012

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2012 by BSI at the Gotlands Museum [with permission]

INFORMATION

FontID: 00314SJP

Museum and Inventory Number: Gotlands Museum [formerly Fornsalen museum], Visby, Gotland

Church/Chapel: Sjonhems kyrka

Church Location: Sjonhem kyrka, 622 44 Romakloster, Sweden

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Gotland, Gotlands län

Directions to Site: Located off (N) county road 143, 5 km SE of Romakloster, 20-25 km SE of Visby

Ecclesiastic Region: Visby stift -- Vänge församling

Historical Region: Gotlands norra härad, Halla ting, Gotlands län

Font Location in Church: [at the Gotlands Museum, Visby]

Date: ca. 1130?

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

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Hegvald / Hegwald

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the staff at the Gotlands Museum, and to Torsten Svensson, for their help in documenting this object

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Described and illustrated in Sveriges kyrkor: Gotland (Bd. IV, hft. 3: 308-310) as a Romanesque sandstone piscina by Hegwald, dated to ca. 1130 by Roosval; two sides of the piscina, the front and the back, are illustrated. On side one, the front of the basin, a Crucifixion scene in a circle; the base, which is divided in two registers by a central braid motif, shows Daniel and two lions above the central partition [NB: Juan Antonio Olañeta communicated to BSI in August 2023 that they are not lions but dragons [cf. infra] therefore the 'Daniel and the lions' identification should be rejected], while in the lower one two figures armed with swords are seated (the caption identifies them as Herod and Herodias). On side two, the back of the basin, the caption identifies "the St. Matthew Angel" on the basin; on the upper part of the base, above the braid partition, "an animal symbolising the Soul of Man, flanked by two dragons"; below the partition, "Virgin and Child, and one of the Three Kings with a gift" (ibid., p. 311). On-site notes: the piscina is carved in two parts, the upper basin and a pedestal base; the base has two areas to it, the upper and lower registers being seprated by a thick braid; the general shape of the object is quadrangular, with a total of twelve motifs and/or scenes. Description of the scenes on the basin sides [L->R]: 1) a circle framing the composition of a Crucifixion scene: Christ stands full frontal, body straight, arms extended; he is wearing a full gown, tied at the waist with complex knot (Santos), legs parallel and both feet visible; a figure under the left arm of the cross carries a lance, while the figure under the right arm is is crouching with the upper body bent forward, arms extended forward in a gesture of prayer, head bent down; 2)next figure to the right is a passant-to-the-left ox or bull, scroll at its feet; 3)next to the right is a haloed human figure framed in a mandorla sitting on rainbow throne, holding a scroll with both hands; 4) the side to the right has a haloed lion passant-regardant in a circle, an acanthus in the background. There are head figures on the upper bowl corners. All sides of the second level, or upper base, form a single scene: a human figure with long hair and, perhaps, haloed, sits full frontal; to the left is a beaked monster resembling a dragon with wings and coiled tail; to the right is a lion or lions. The lower base is round-to-square and has a thick braid atop; the sides are scallpoed, and appear to contain two scenes, each spread over two sides; on one side a standing figure in long robes stands to the left of a seated figure holding a sword pointed up and raising his right hand to his ear; the next side [L->R] contains two seated figures with swords help, point up, in their lefts hands; the figure on the left is a woman, identified by her long braid, a Hegwald characterist; her right hand touches her left; the figure on the right seats in a similar position but is probably male; his right hand raised diagonally scross his chest, pointing up to the right with two fingers; it has been suggested that both scenes may be related to Herod, the left to the Massacre of the Innocents, the right to the deal between Herod and Herodias; it may sound far-fectched, but, after all, this is Hegwald. The next two sides illustrate the Adoration of the Magi; on the left side are two Magi, passant to the right, holding gifts and leaning on staves; on the right side is a Magus making his offering to Christ Child seated in the Madonna's knee; curiously the Madonna is haloed but Christ is not [Hegwald!]. NB: the Museum has not been very consistent in their display of this object; at the time of our first visit, in May 1997, the object was displayed in the middle of the room, all four sides visible; at the time of our second visit, August 2012, we found the piscina right against a wall, thus obscuring one side almost entirely, and providing very awkward access to one other side. Furthermore, the basin had been re-alligned with the base, making it difficult to estimate what the original allignment was; one would tentatively suggest that the Madonna and Child part of the base might be alligned with the Crucifixion of the basin, but that would leave a lonely lion alligned in the upper base, not the central seated figure...

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.485556, 18.520778

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 29′ 8″ N, 18° 31′ 14.8″ E

UTM: 34V 351379 6374150

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone?

Number of Pieces: three

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 6-7 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 18-19 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 30-31 cm*

Basin Depth: 16 cm* [wooden stopper bottom]

Height of Basin Side: 29 cm*

Basin Total Height: 25-29 cm*

Height of Base: 54-55 cm*

Height of Central Column: 33 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 80-84 cm*

Square Base Dimensions: 31 x 33 cm*

Trapezoidal Basin: 32 x 32 cm*

Notes on Measurements: BSI -- *[NB: although roughly quadrangular, the object is rather irregular; all measurements are therefore approximate]

REFERENCES

Lundmark, Efraim, Sveriges kyrkor: Gotland, Stockholm: G. Tisell, 1925-1990

Roosval, Johnny, Die Steinmeister Gottlands: Eine Geschichte der führenden Taufsteinwerkstätte des schwedischen Mittlealters, ihre Voraussetzungen und Begleit-Erscheinungen, Stockholm: A.-B. C.E. Fritzes K. Hofbokhandel, 1918

Roosval, Johnny, Medeltida kunst i Gotlands fornsal, Stockholm: A.-B. Gunnar Tisells tekniska förlag, 1925

Stenström, Tore, "Problem rörande Gotlands medeltida dopfuntar", Umeå, 1975

Tuulse, Armin, Romansk konst i Norden, Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag, 1968