Senosiain / Senosiáin

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Results: 29 records

animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - devouring human

animal - mammal - lion - with prey - human (or dragon)

animal - mammal - lion?

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003

Image Source: Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier (Pamplona, Spain)

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)

animal - reptile - unidentified

human figure - female - naked - with devil? or monster?

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 16 June 1999 by BSI

human figure - grotesque or fantastic - head - 2

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 16 June 1999 by BSI

human figure - head - 12

Scene Description: twelve faces around the upper part of the bowl

human figure - male - (cleric? - monk?) - exposed genitals - holding penis in left hand and fish in right hand

Scene Description: Probably a monk, to judge by the tonsure

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003

Image Source: Institución Príncipe de Viana, Archivo Uranga (Pamplona, Spain), photograph [ca. 1943]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)

human figure - male - naked - covering genitals - bound feet

Scene Description: described also as a headless man

symbol - cross - lancée - in a circle

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 16 June 1999 by BSI

view of basin

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Ortega, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2006 by Andrés Ortega [www.romanicoennavarra.info]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: man holding up his penis; to the left, a monstruous fish-like creature

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Ortega, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2006 by Andrés Ortega [www.romanicoennavarra.info]

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Scene Description: small female figure with monstruous creature (?) behind her

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Ortega, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2006 by Andrés Ortega [www.romanicoennavarra.info]

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Scene Description: a lion or fabulous monster

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Ortega, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2006 by Andrés Ortega [www.romanicoennavarra.info]

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Scene Description: monstruous creature with bird-of-prey head

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Ortega, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2006 by Andrés Ortega [www.romanicoennavarra.info]

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: feline? lion?

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Ortega, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2006 by Andrés Ortega [www.romanicoennavarra.info]

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Scene Description: feline? lion?

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Ortega, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2006 by Andrés Ortega [www.romanicoennavarra.info]

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: monstruous creature: sirenid?

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Ortega, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2006 by Andrés Ortega [www.romanicoennavarra.info]

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Scene Description: grotesque head? vulva?

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Ortega, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2006 by Andrés Ortega [www.romanicoennavarra.info]

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: cross

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Scene Description: two grotesque heads

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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Ortega, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2006 by Andrés Ortega [www.romanicoennavarra.info]

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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Ortega, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2006 by Andrés Ortega [www.romanicoennavarra.info]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Ortega, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2006 by Andrés Ortega [www.romanicoennavarra.info]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Ortega, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2006 by Andrés Ortega [www.romanicoennavarra.info]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Ortega, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2006 by Andrés Ortega [www.romanicoennavarra.info]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 16 June 1999 by BSI

view of font

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 16 June 1999 by BSI

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00470SEN
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin
Church Location: c/ San Martín, 11, 31172 Senosiáin, Navarra, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the NA-7030, 1-2 km NW of Ulzurrun, about 20 km NW of Pamplona
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesis de Pamplona
Historical Region: Cuenca de Pamplona / Merindad de Pamplona
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a N side chapel
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [basin only], Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Institución Príncipe de Viana and the photographers Larrión & Pimoulier, of Pamplona, Spain, for their images of this font, We are also grateful to Andrés Ortega, of www.romanicoennavarra.info, for his photographs of this font
Described and illustrated in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?- ) as a baptismal font with a roughly hemispheric basin in which the "vertical" divsions on the outer face all start from the upper side roll moulding down towards the underbowl; the divisions are not however vertical, but take angular shapes to accommodate the assortment of motifs in them. The motifs are identified and studied in Domeño (1992) [L-->R]:1)a naked man with a fish in his right hand, while the left holds his own penis; 2)two monstruous heads; 3)lancée cross surrounded by foliage and with a demonic head below it; 4)a head-less man seats on a chamber-pot (?) while his left hand is on his genitals; female head and a two-headed reptile, one of which heads has a significan protrusion, a dragon below; 5)monster / devilish figure with human hands holding object; 6)dragon; 7)reptile; 8)lion; 9)naked woman below monstruous head. Described in the Gran Enciclopedia Navarra (1990). [NB: the CMdeN (ibid.) mentions a holy-water stoup in the S side, by the door, but not its date -- not included in this Index]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 592872 4746574

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: three
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 6-7 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 74 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 88 - 100 cm*
Basin Depth: 27 cm*
Basin Total Height: 43 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 103 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site

REFERENCES

Gran enciclopedia Navarra (11 vols.), Pamplona: Caja de Ahorros de Navarra, 1990
Domeño Martínez de Morentín, Asunción, Pilas bautismales medievales en Navarra, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, 1992
García Gainza, María Concepción, Catálogo monumental de Navarra, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, Arzobispado de Navarra, Universidad de Navarra, [1990?]
Navallas Rebolé, A., Navarra, guía y mapa, 1986