Ciadoncha / Cibtatania / Cibtatonia / Cidadoncha

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LB02: animal - mammal - quadruped

Scene Description: only the legs remain visible

animal - reptile - snake - coiled

Scene Description: bites its own tail

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animal - reptile - snake - coiled - detail

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animal - reptile - snake - fighting a quadruped

Scene Description: a detail of the damaged zoomachia scene showing on the left the broken end of the reptile's body which, as in other similar fonts [cf. FontNotes] would coil around the quadruped's body; only the feet/paws of the second animal remain

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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - columns with capitals and bases

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

Scene Description: two?

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design element - motifs - foliage - palmette

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design element - motifs - rope moulding - double

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design element - motifs - scotia

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design element - patterns - ribbed - concave

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symbol - cross - Greek - pattée - in a circle

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view of base

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view of base - detail

Scene Description: the damaged area of the zoomachia: on the far left are the paws of the quadruped [lion?] fighting the snake; on the right is the broken body of the snake

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view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: showing a metal staple on the left side of the rim; diagonally across the damaged area shows where another metal staple split the stone; part of the lead plug is still visible

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church interior - detail

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view of church interior - looking east

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view of church interior - statue - Madonna and Child

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00557CIA

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de la Asunción de Nuestra Señora

Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary

Church Location: Calle de la Calzada, s/n, 09228 Ciadoncha, Burgos, Spain -- Tel.: +34 947 16 00 00

Country Name: Spain

Location: Burgos, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located of the BU-P-1001, 4 km N of Mahamud, 25-30 km NW of Lerma, about 30 km SW of Burgos capital

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos

Historical Region: Comarca del Arlanza

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, beneath the gallery, S side

Century and Period: 13th century, Medieval

Cognate Fonts: the font from Mazariegos [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Fundación Santa María la Real [www.romanicodigital.com] for their permission to reproduce content from the Enciclopedia del románico. We are also grateful to Pedro Lozano Huerta for his photographs of this church and font

Church Notes: late-Romanesque and Gothic church, modified in the 16thC

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Listed in Pérez Carmona (1974). Described in Guerra (1986 c1978), who comments on the symbolism of the serpent on this font. Described in Bilbao (1996). Described and illustrated in Valle Barreda (2009), with date in the mid-12th century. Large hemispherical basin decorated with a rope motif at the upper rim; arcade of round narrow arches resting on columns with capitals and bases on the ouside; some of the arches contain inscribed six-petal flowers, another has an inscribed Greek potent cross; the spandrels of the arcade inscribe palmettes; concave ribbing carved on the inside of the bowl; wide circular lower base has a moulding in the form of a serpent biting its tail; above it, the remaining legs of a lost quadruped; on a cound plinth. The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 27 January 2021] reports: "La pila es románica, avenerada, con arcos con capitel, cruces, sogueado y serpiente en la base". The entry for this church in Cultura Burgos [https://cultura.burgos.es/sites/default/files/file/page/CIADONCHA - Iglesia de la Asuncin de Ntra. Seora.pdf] [accessed 27 January 2021] notes: "Pila bautismal románica. Del siglo XII / XIII. En su base aparece una serpiente, símbolo del pecado vencido por el Bautismo. La decoración exterior es una serie de columnas y arcos ciegos. Pertenece a la misma escuela de las pilas de Cojóbar, Villamayor de los Montes y Mecerreyes." Described and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_CIADONCHA.pdf] [accessed 28 April 2021]: "La iglesia parroquial es una sólida construcción de sillería levantada en su mayor parte durante la primera mitad del siglo XVI. El único testimonio románico que se conserva en ella es una bella pila bautismal (137 cm de diámetro×95 cm de altura) ubicada a los pies de la nave, sobre un basamento circular de sillería. Consta de una basa formada por una escocia y un bocel que es en realidad una serpiente mordiéndose la cola. Esta decoración se completaba con la figura de un león que desapareció conservándose únicamente las garras de sus cuatro patas colocadas junto al reptil. Encima va una copa semiesférica, gallonada al interior y adornada en el exterior con una moldura funicular en la embocadura seguida de una cinta perlada y de una arquería de medio punto sobre columnillas provistas decapiteles lisos. El espacio de las enjutas lo ocupan sencillas palmetas mientras que bajo tres de los arcos se labraron en bajorrelieve clípeos con hexapétalas y una cruz. Desde el punto de vista tipológico esta pila queda emparentada con otras de la zona centro-sur de la provincia, como las de Cojóbar, Zalduendo, Mecerreyes, Madrigal del Monte, Barriosuso (Retortillo), Valdorros y Palazuelos de Muñó. El ejemplar de Mazariegos (Museo Arqueológico Nacional), fechado hacia comienzos de la segunda mitad del siglo XII, permite fijar una cronología parecida para todas ellas." [NB: the concave rib pattern on the inside of the basin of this font suggests a later date, probably 13th-century]. There is no cover present but one metal staple from a cover anchoring remains in the upper rim.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 422885 4666852

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: two?

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Diameter (includes rim): 137 cm* / **

Font Height (less Plinth): 94 cm* / 95 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * Bilbao (1996: 276) / ** Enciclopedia del románico [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996

Guerra, Manuel, Simbología románica: el cristianismo y otras religiones en el arte románico, Madrid: Fundación Universitaria Española, 1986, c1978

Pérez Carmona, J., Arquitectura y Escultura Románicas en la Provincia de Burgos, Burgos: Facultad de Teología del Norte de España, 1974

Valle Barreda, César del, Todo el románico de Burgos, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, 2009