Merseburg No. 1 / Merseberg
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Results: 171 records
B01: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Paul?
Scene Description: on Jeremiah's shoulder
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2017 by BSI
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B02: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Peter - holding 2 keys
Scene Description: on Hosea's shoulder -- the carving is very eroded but there are two keys in Peter's right hand
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2017 by BSI
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B03: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Andrew
Scene Description: seen here in the left arch, on Zacharia's shoulders
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 March 2015 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Merseburg_Dom_Taufbecken_144.jpg] [accessed 22 June 2017]
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B05: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Andrew
Scene Description: on Esdras shoulder
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2017 by BSI
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B05: Apostle or saint - Apostles - unidentified
Scene Description: on Esdras shoulder
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2017 by BSI
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B06: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. James
Scene Description: on Jonah's shoulder
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B08: Apostle or saint - Apostles - Judas
Scene Description: on Amos' shoulder
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B08: Apostle or saint - Apostles - unidentified
Scene Description: on Joel's shoulder; Simon?
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B09: Apostle or saint - Apostles - Evangelist - St. Matthew?
Scene Description: on Ezechiel's shoulder
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2017 by BSI
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B10: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Bartholomew
Scene Description: on Daniels shoulder
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2017 by BSI
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B10: Old Testament - the story of the prophet Daniel - Daniel's punishment and liberation: Daniel in the lion's den - with scroll - detail
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2017 by BSI
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B10: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Bartholomew
Scene Description: seen here in the centre arch, on Daniel's shoulders
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 March 2015 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Merseburg_Dom_Taufbecken_205.jpg] [accessed 22 June 2017]
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B11: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Philip
Scene Description: on Zephaniah's shoulder
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B12: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Thomas?
Scene Description: on Habakkuk's shoulder
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BF01: human figure - kneeling
Scene Description: kneeling to the right of Jeremiah; perhaps the patron who sponsored the font?
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2017 by BSI
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BF01: Old Testament - the book of Jeremiah - Jeremiah - with scroll
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BF02: Old Testament - the book of Hosea - Hosea - with scroll
Scene Description: in the centre arch, carrying St. Peter on his shoulder; Jeremiah (and the kneeling figure) on the left; Zacharias in the right arch
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BF03: Old Testament - the book of Zechariah - Zechariah - with scroll
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2017 by BSI
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BF03: Old Testament - the book of Zechariah - Zechariah - with scroll
Scene Description: carrying St. Andrew on his soulder
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2017 by BSI
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BF03: Old Testament - the book of Zechariah - Zechariah - with scroll
Scene Description: seen here in the left arch, carrying St. Andrew on his shoulder
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 March 2015 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Merseburg_Dom_Taufbecken_144.jpg] [accessed 22 June 2017]
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BF04: Old Testament - the book of Malachi - Malachi - with scroll - detail
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2017 by BSI
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BF04: Old Testament - the book of Jonah - Jonah in the fish's belly (Jonah 2:1 - 3:2)?
Scene Description: seen here in the right arch
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 March 2015 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Merseburg_Dom_Taufbecken_144.jpg] [accessed 22 June 2017]
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BF05: view of basin
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2017 by BSI
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BF05: view of basin
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BF05: Old Testament - the books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esdras - Esdras - with scroll
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2017 by BSI
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BF05: Old Testament - the books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esdras - Esdras - with scroll
Scene Description: seen here in the right arch
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 19 March 2015 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Merseburg_Dom_Taufbecken_141.jpg] [accessed 22 June 2017]
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BF06: Old Testament - the book of Jonah - Jonah - with scroll - detail
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BF06: Old Testament - the book of Jonah - Jonah - with scroll
Scene Description: between Esdras (left) and Joel (right), carrying St. James on his shoulder
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BF06: Old Testament - the book of Jonah - Jonah - with scroll
Scene Description: seen here in the right arch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hoger, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 August 2014 by Hoger [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dom_Merseburg_14.JPG] [accessed 22 June 2017]
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BF07: Old Testament - the book of Joel - with scroll - detail
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2017 by BSI
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BF07: Old Testament - the book of Joel - Joel - with scroll
Scene Description: between Jonah (left) and Amos (right)
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2017 by BSI
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BF07: Old Testament - the book of Joel - Joel - with scroll
Scene Description: seen here in the right arch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hoger, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 August 2014 by Hoger [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dom_Merseburg_14.JPG] [accessed 22 June 2017]
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BF08: Old Testament - the book of Amos - Amos - with scroll - detail
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2017 by BSI
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BF08: Old Testament - the book of Amos - Amos - with scroll
Scene Description: between Joel (left) and Ezechiel (right; carrying Judas on his shoulder
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2017 by BSI
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BF08: Old Testament - the book of Amos - Amos - with scroll
Scene Description: seen here in the right arch; Joel occupies the left arch
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 March 2015 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Merseburg_Dom_Taufbecken_142.jpg] [accessed 22 June 2017]
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BF09: Old Testament - the book of Ezekiel - Ezekiel - with scroll - detail
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2017 by BSI
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BF09: Old Testament - the book of Ezekiel - Ezekiel - with scroll
Scene Description: between Amos (left) and Daniel (right); carrying St. Matthew (?) on his shoulder
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2017 by BSI
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BF09: Old Testament - the book of Ezekiel - Ezekiel - with scroll
![[cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140224001_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfgang Guelcker, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 July 2010 by Wolfgang Guelckerby [http://wgue.smugmug.com/Orte/Sachsen-Anhalt/Merseburg/18198484_ndSX8f/1398458126_p5c5StR#!i=1398458126&k=p5c5StR] [accessed 24 February 2014]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
BF10: Old Testament - the story of the prophet Daniel - Daniel's punishment and liberation: Daniel in the lion's den - with scroll
Scene Description: with Ezechiel in the left arch; carrying St. Bartholomew on his shoulder
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2017 by BSI
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BF10: Old Testament - the story of the prophet Daniel - Daniel's punishment and liberation: Daniel in the lion's den - with scroll
Scene Description: seen here in the centre arch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 March 2015 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Merseburg_Dom_Taufbecken_205.jpg] [accessed 22 June 2017]
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BF10: Old Testament - the story of the prophet Daniel - Daniel's punishment and liberation: Daniel in the lion's den - with scroll
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfgang Guelcker, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 July 2010 by Wolfgang Guelckerby [http://wgue.smugmug.com/Orte/Sachsen-Anhalt/Merseburg/18198484_ndSX8f/1398458126_p5c5StR#!i=1398458126&k=p5c5StR] [accessed 24 February 2014]
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BF11: Old Testament - the book of Zephaniah - Zephaniah
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2017 by BSI
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BF11: Old Testament - the book of Zephaniah - Zephaniah
![aka Tsfanya / Ṣəp̄anyā / Sophonias [צְפַנְיָה]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1171021093_compressed.png)
Scene Description: aka Tsfanya / Ṣəp̄anyā / Sophonias [צְפַנְיָה]
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BF12: Old Testament - the book of Habakkuk - Habakkuk - with scroll - detail
Scene Description: detail of the rich design and decoration of the prophet's robes and shoes
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BF12: Old Testament - the book of Habakkuk - Habakkuk - with scroll - detail
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BF12: Old Testament - the book of Habakkuk - Habakkuk - with scroll
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LB01: symbol - the the four rivers of paradise (springing from a fountain) (springing from a fountain)
Scene Description: one of the personified symbols of the Four Rivers of Paradise; this one much damaged
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2017 by BSI
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LB01: symbol - the four rivers of paradise (springing from a fountain)
Scene Description: one of the four; this one much damaged
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LB02: animal - mammal - lion - passant
Scene Description: passant to the left
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LB03: symbol - the four rivers of paradise (springing from a fountain)
Scene Description: one of the four
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LB03: symbol - the four rivers of paradise (springing from a fountain)
Scene Description: one of the four
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LB04: animal - mammal - lion - passant
Scene Description: passant to the right; the figure partially visible on the right is the third symbol of the rivers of Paradise
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LB04: animal - mammal - lion - passant
Scene Description: passant to the right
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LB05: symbol - the four rivers of paradise (springing from a fountain)
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LB05: symbol - the four rivers of paradise (springing from a fountain)
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LB05: symbol - the four rivers of paradise (springing from a fountain)
Scene Description: the third personified symbol of the rivers of Paradise, seen here between lion heads
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LB06: animal - mammal - lion - passant
Scene Description: passant to the left, although the posture is almost couchant
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LB06: animal - mammal - lion - passant
Scene Description: passant to the left, although the posture is almost couchant; the head of this thrid lion is not very feline, resembling rather that of a weasel
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LB07: symbol - the four rivers of paradise (springing from a fountain)
Scene Description: the fourth symbol of the rivers of Paradise
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LB07: symbol - the four rivers of paradise (springing from a fountain)
Scene Description: the fourth symbol of the rivers of Paradise seen here betwen the rumps of two lions
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LB08: animal - mammal - lion - couchant
Scene Description: the fourth lion of the base looking rather dejected; perhaps not too happy with its quasi-simian head
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LB08: animal - mammal - lion - couchant
Scene Description: the fourth lion of the base
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view of font
Scene Description: with four Prophets and four Apostles yet to be identified -- notice te damage to the lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 19 March 2015 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Merseburg_Dom_Taufbecken_143.jpg] [accessed 22 June 2017]
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view of basin - interior
Scene Description: there is no drain in it
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inscription - detail
Scene Description: seen as the stone carver would have seen it standing inside the basin
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inscription - detail
Scene Description: seen as the stone carver would have seen it standing inside the basin
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inscription - detail
Scene Description: seen as the stone carver would have seen it standing inside the basin
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inscription - detail
Scene Description: seen as the stone carver would have seen it standing inside the basin
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inscription - detail
Scene Description: seen as the stone carver would have seen it standing inside the basin
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inscription - detail
Scene Description: seen as the stone carver would have seen it standing inside the basin
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inscription - detail
Scene Description: seen as the stone carver would have seen it standing inside the basin
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inscription - detail
Scene Description: seen as the stone carver would have seen it standing inside the basin
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inscription - detail
Scene Description: seen as the stone carver would have seen it standing inside the basin
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inscription - detail
Scene Description: seen as the stone carver would have seen it standing inside the basin
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inscription - detail
Scene Description: seen as the stone carver would have seen it standing inside the basin
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inscription - detail
Scene Description: seen as the stone carver would have seen it standing inside the basin
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inscription - detail
Scene Description: seen as the stone carver would have seen it standing inside the basin
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inscription - detail
Scene Description: seen as the stone carver would have seen it standing inside the basin
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inscription - detail
Scene Description: seen as the stone carver would have seen it standing inside the basin
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inscription - detail
Scene Description: seen as the stone carver would have seen it standing inside the basin
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inscription - detail
Scene Description: seen as the stone carver would have seen it standing inside the basin
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inscription - detail
Scene Description: seen as the stone carver would have seen it standing inside the basin
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inscription - detail
Scene Description: seen as the stone carver would have seen it standing inside the basin
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inscription - detail
Scene Description: seen as the stone carver would have seen it standing inside the basin
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inscription - detail
Scene Description: seen as the stone carver would have seen it standing inside the basin
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inscription - detail
Scene Description: seen as the stone carver would have seen it standing inside the basin
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inscription - detail
Scene Description: seen as the stone carver would have seen it standing inside the basin
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inscription - detail
Scene Description: seen as the stone carver would have seen it standing inside the basin
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inscription - detail
Scene Description: seen as the stone carver would have seen it standing inside the basin
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inscription - detail
Scene Description: seen as the stone carver would have seen it standing inside the basin
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inscription - detail
Scene Description: seen as the stone carver would have seen it standing inside the basin
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view of basin - rim - detail
Scene Description: detail of an old cover metal anchorage point and the damage caused to the stone
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view of basin - rim
Scene Description: detail of an old cover metal anchorage point and the damage caused to the stone
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view of basin - rim
Scene Description: detail of an old cover metal anchorage point and the damage caused to the stone
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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus
Scene Description: all around, between the two rows of beaded-tape pattern
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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus
Scene Description: all around; the large damage area to the rim shows that the expansion of the metal probably split the stone, as is common in many such cases
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2017 by BSI
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human figure - head
Scene Description: in the spandrels of the arcade
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Scene Description: all around; seen here above the acanthus vine
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Scene Description: all around, just below the feet of the prophets, and another row below the acanthus vine
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Scene Description: each containing a prophet and a tiny apostle
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Saale in Merseburg mit Neumarktbrücke, Dom und Schloß".
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Scene Description: remains of the earlier church, a re-building probably of the second quarter of the 13th century
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Scene Description: remains of the earlier church, a re-building probably of the second quarter of the 13th century
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Scene Description: with the tomb of Rudolf of Rheinfelden (c. 1025 – 15 October 1080), Duke of Swabia and brother-in-law of emperor Henry IV
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Scene Description: in the south transept
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Scene Description: seen here from the north side of the transept; the old font is located at the opposite end, in the south transept
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Dom St. Johannes und St. Laurentius in Merseburg im Saalekreis in Sachsen-Anhalt/Deutschland, frühgotisches Triumphkreuz, um 1240"
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Mittelschiff nach Westen. Im Vordergrund die Grabplatte Rudolfs von Schwaben."
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Scene Description: sharing the lower base with the symbols of the four rivers of Paradise
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00339MER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2017-09-25
Font Date: ca. 1180?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?), Late Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Merseburger Dom St. Johannes der Täufer und Laurentius
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the narthex, S transept off W side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist & St. Lawrence
Previous Font Location(s): originally from St. Thomas Neumarkt church in the same town
Church Notes: original church here 919; later cathedral consecrated 1021;
Church Address: Domplatz 7, 06217 Merseburg, Germany -- Tel.: +49 3461 210045
Site Location: Halle, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (N) road 181 [aka Amtshauser], on the left (W) bank of the Saale river, 14 km S of Halle (Saale), about 30 km W of Leipzig
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Merseburg [formerly in the Hochstift Merseburg]
Additional Comments: recycled font: originally from the church of St. Thomas in Merseburg, was moved to the cathedral of the same town in 1730-1731, not in 1831 [cf. notes in Carlsson] / painted font (somo paint remains on the sides) -- Juan Antonio Olaneta sent BSI his photos of this and the other fonts in Merseburg; few of them added; others added to the Merseburg images files in a folder unprocessed
Font Notes:
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Lübke (1870) notes an octagonal font in this church. Described in Favreau (1985): "Fonts baptismaux de la cathédrale de Merseburg, où sont representés apôtres, prophètes et fleuves du paradis" [=baptismal font at Merseburg cathedral, on which are represented apostles, prophets and the rivers of Paradise], plus an inscription. The reference from the Index of Christian Index shows the figures of two of the prophets, Esdras and Malachias, identified by the text on the banners they hold (Hamnn, 1922-1923). Described and illustrated in Carlsson (1976): "The baptismal font of Merseburg, dated around 1180, is now standing in the western entrance of the cathedral but was brought here in 1831 from the church of St. Thomas in the same city [...]. It is hewn from one block of reddish sandstone and is octogonal in shape. It consists of two parts; the upper one with the bowl has sixteen prophets with scrolls in their hands and carrying diminutive apostles on their shoulders. The lower part has four lions carrying the bowl on their backs. They are placed on every second side of the octogon while the other four sides are occupied by the four rivers of paradise in the form of four men with water-flowing urns." [NB: the date of the move was 1730-1731; St. Thomas' was demolished in 1831]. Catalogued and illustrated in Forster (2008) with date ca. 1180 [pre-1177?] and suggests the identification of the kneeling figure as the abbot of the Benedictine abbey of St. Peter. Described and illustrated in Forster (2008).
On-site notes: the stone has a strong reddish hue; there is some damage to the upper rim; the present cover is modern, of wood.
On-site notes: the stone has a strong reddish hue; there is some damage to the upper rim; the present cover is modern, of wood.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Juan Antonio Olañeta for his photographs of this font. We are also grateful to Pol Herman for his help documenting this font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 33U 291210 5694018
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.359, 12.001
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 21′ 32.4″ N, 12° 0′ 3.6″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone (reddish)
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage System: no drainage system
Rim Thickness: 16-22 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 90 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 120-134 cm* / 131 cm**
Basin Depth: 42 cm*
Height of Basin Side: 95 cm*
Basin Total Height: 104 cm*
Height of Base: 25 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 127 cm* / **
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** Forster (2008)
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Location: 1) On the basin side; 2) also each prophet holds a banner inscribed with his name
Inscription Text: 1) "+HOS DEUS EMUNDA QUOS ISTIC ABLUIT UNDA FIAT UT INTERIUS QUOD FIT ET EXTERIUS"
1b) "Hos deus enutnda qllos istic abluit undn, fiat lit interius quod fit et exteriue"
2) "AMOS" / "DANIEL" / "ESDRAS"/ "IOEL" / "IONAS" / "MALACHIA" / "ZACHARIAS"
3) "ANDREAS" / "BARTHOLOM[?]" /
Inscription Notes: Favreau's translation: "May God purify those who have been washed here and may their inside be cleansed as was their outside"
Inscription Source: 1-3) Favreau (1985: 126); 1b) Forster (2008)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain; modern
REFERENCES
- Carlsson, Frans, The Iconology of Tectonics in Romanesque Art, Hässleholm: AM-Tryck, 1976, p. 124-125 and pl. 187
- Favreau, Robert, "Inscription des fonts baptismaux d'Hildesheim", 38, 2, Cahiers de civilisation medievale, 1985, pp. 115-140; p. 126 for the inscription, and footnote 103
- Forster, Christian, "Taufstein aus St. Thomas am Neumarkt", 2008, pp. 113-115; p. 113-124
- Forster, Christian, "Taufstein aus St. Thomas am Neumarkt", Der Merseburger Dom und seine Schatze. Zeugnisse einer tausendjahrigen Geschichte, Petersberg: Michael Imhnf Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, 2008, p. 113-115
- Hamann, Richard, Deutsche und französische Kunst im Mittelalter, Marburg: Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar, 1922-1923, II, fig. 216
- Lübke, Wilhelm, Ecclesiastical in Gemany during the Middle Ages [tranl. by L. A. Wheatley], London: Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, 1870, p. 187