Unanua No. 1 / Hunano / Hunanoa / Unanoa / Unanu / Unenu

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Results: 28 records

animal - mammal - stag - passant

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

design element - motifs

Scene Description: a poorly rendered floral or star (or ?) in a circle

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

design element - motifs - ball

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

design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 4 petals - 4 (or liturgical furnishings -- bell - 4?)

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

design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 6-petal - in a circle

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

Image Source: digital image taken by photographers Larrión and Pimoulier for the Institución Príncipe de Viana (Pamplona, Spain)

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

design element - motifs - foliage (or symbol - Tree of Life?)

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Image Source: digital image taken by photographers Larrión and Pimoulier for the Institución Príncipe de Viana (Pamplona, Spain)

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 2

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Image Source: digital image taken by photographers Larrión and Pimoulier for the Institución Príncipe de Viana (Pamplona, Spain)

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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

design element - motifs - rope moulding

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

design element - motifs - rope moulding

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design element - motifs - wheel - concentric wheels

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design element - motifs - wheel - concentric wheels

Scene Description: this one has been obliterated by a hole for the iron lock installed in it

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

human figure - arms akimbo

Scene Description: on the left of the anchor cross -- notice the damage to the upper rim here, caused perhaps by a metal staple of an old cover

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

human figure - arms raised

Scene Description: seen here at the extreme left

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

human figure - hands together in prayer?

Scene Description: a priest? may be part of the baptismal scene [in B05]

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

human figure - in prayer? / with child?

Scene Description: the bust is directly beneath the priestly figure on the basin side; it appears to have the arms folded and holding an object or a child

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

human figure - with object (candle?)

Scene Description: may be part of the baptismal scene [in B05]

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

sacrament - baptism

Scene Description: the scene may or may not include the two figures at the extremes [entered here as B05 and B07], the one on the left holding a candle (?)

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

symbol - cross - anchor

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symbol - cross?

Scene Description: cross-like motif with balls in the corners

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

symbol - plant - Tree of life?

Scene Description: [as in B10]

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

symbol - plant - Tree of life? - 2

Scene Description: with a geometric pattern between them -- Domeño [cf. FontNotes] describes the plants as "una construcción con doble arco de medio punto que tiende ligeramente a la herradura".

symbol - star - 8-point - in a circle

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

Image Source: digital image taken by photographers Larrión and Pimoulier for the Institución Príncipe de Viana (Pamplona, Spain)

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unidentified

Scene Description: one source suggests a human figure

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Image Source: digital image taken by photographers Larrión and Pimoulier for the Institución Príncipe de Viana (Pamplona, Spain)

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unidentified

Scene Description: one source suggests a tomb; seen here at the extreme right, where the wire descends down the side of the basin

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

view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Oscar Elorza, 2018

Image Source: digital photograph in Oscar Elorza's blog [https://s1.wklcdn.com/image_35/1072281/10618885/6405718Master.jpg] [accessed 8 February 2018]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restrictions / Fair Dealings

view of font

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

view of font - upper view

Scene Description: showing the modern divisions inside the basin; were these a later alteration to the medieval font, as was the locking pad savagely cut into the side

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

Image Source: digital image taken by photographers Larrión and Pimoulier for the Institución Príncipe de Viana (Pamplona, Spain)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00471UNA
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Pedro Apóstol
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: 31829 Unanua / Unanu, Navarra, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra
Directions to Site: Located off the NA-7102, in the municipality of Ergoyena/Ergoiena, SE of Echarri Aranaz/Etxarri Aranatz
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesis de Pamplona
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the W gallery
Century and Period: 13th century / 16th century, Late Romanesque [altered?]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Institución Príncipe de Viana, and the photographers Larrión and Pimoulier, all of Pamplona, Spain, for their photographs of this font
Church Notes: medieval church re-built 17thC; restored 1990
Described and illustrated in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?- , vol. V*: 639 and pl. 604) as a medieval baptismal font; cylindrical basin with hemispherical underbowl; the sides of the basin are ornamented with human figures, four-branch plants, stars, and flowers and wheels inscribed inside circles; the underbowl is decorated with a human figure, two quatrefoils, plants, ball and other motifs; the inside of the basin well has two halves: one is a semicircular cavity matching the contour of the basin side, whereas the other has been carved only partially to provide three small wells to contain the holy oils, chrism, etc. Described and illustrated in Domeño (1992: 50-53 et al.) as the only baptismal font in Navarre with a baptismal scene carved on it; Domeño (ibid.) describes the motifs in more detail; two of the descriptions could be argued against: one is whether or not the two human figures that stand to either side of the baptismal scene are part of it; the figure on the left has its hands held together low; the one on the right holds an long object that could be seen as a candle; the other contention may be the description of the rounded strokes as a 'construction of round arches...' ["una construcción con doble arco de medio punto que tiende ligeramente a la herradura"]; the latter could very well be seen as plants, probably acanthus. Two large indentations have been made on the sides at some point after the initial carving to accommodate the large hardware of the old cover, though only one of the metal pieces remains now. The upper and lower ends of the basin side are framed with a rope moulding all around. Neither of the two previous sources gives a precise date for the font, other than referring to it as medieval; the Gran Enciclopedia Navarra (1990, v. 11: 161) suggests the 16th century [NB: there is however a reference in Domeño (ibid. p. 50) which may indicate a date assignation when she refers to the 'contemporary custom, in the 12th century, of practising immersion baptism' [="siguiendo la costumbre de este momento (siglo XII) de aplicar el Bautismo por la fórmula de inmersión"]. Regardless of the iconographic program, if the internal division of the basin is not a later addition, the font must be much later than the 12th century; if, however, the inner basin divisions are a later addition, the program could date the font to the late-Romanesque period. The font is badly damaged in several spots, especially on the carved sides of the basin; the rim is much worn [another case of the stone used to sharpen Napoleon's sabres? or agricultural implements?] The base is a cylindrical pedestal, plain except for a roll moulding at either end. The entry for this location in Navarchivo [Archivo del patrimonio inmaterial de Navarra] [http://navarchivo.unavarra.es/index.php/es/localidades/pamplona/unanua-ergoyena] [accessed 8 February 2018] reads: "En el primer tramo de la nave, bajo el coro alto, hay una pila bautismal pétrea, cuya copa se decora con relieves figurativos muy estilizados. Es de notable tamaño y parece corresponder al siglo XVI.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 4748759 580229

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone?
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: [multi-division -- may be added]
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 11-12 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 75-76 cm*+
Diameter (includes rim): 98 cm*
Basin Depth: 25 cm*
Height of Basin Side: 22-23 cm*
Basin Total Height: 40 cm*
Height of Base: 65 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 105 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site +[this measurement was taken ignoring the inner division of the basin well]

LID INFORMATION

Notes: part of the iron hardware of the font cover is still on the basin side

REFERENCES

Gran enciclopedia Navarra (11 vols.), Pamplona: Caja de Ahorros de Navarra, 1990
Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996
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?]