Santillan del Agua / La Aguilera / Santillán del Agua / Villa San Julianini

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Results: 19 records

basin: symbol - cross - Greek - pattée

Scene Description: a large one on one of the narrower side of the font; to the left is something that resembles another human figure (?)

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Image Source: digital photograoh taken in 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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

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design element - motifs - unidentified

Scene Description: they appear to be an attempt at foliage, but could also be incised shapes after the fact

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Image Source: digital photograoh taken in 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - motifs - zigzag - vertical

Scene Description: the 6-petal motif seen partially here on the left

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Image Source: digital photograoh taken in 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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human figure

Scene Description: "orant" to Bilbao, but not to the Enciclopedia [cf. FontNotes] -- it is very sketchy; arguable whether it has arms or not

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Image Source: digital photograoh taken in 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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human figure

Scene Description: on the much damaged side with large Creek cross; no arms discernible but the legs are clearly carved; is it s figure within a figure: a figure with a large halo?

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inscription

Scene Description: badly eroded and damaged now, but some of it is still legible [cf. FontNotes and InscriptionArea]

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: one of the narrow sides, showing a human figure, with a Greek potent cross and a floral motif in a circle above, as well as a vertical band of zigzag on the left

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: vertical zigzag on the left of the side of the basin that has the cross, the 6-petal motif and the standing human figure

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Image Source: digital photograoh taken in 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the long side of the basin with the inscription is badly eroded; the incised motifs appear to include some intersecting round arches

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view of basin - interior

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view of basin - side

Scene Description: the side with the inscription; there are traces of incised of scratched motifs below, but too faint to make sense of them

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view of basin - upper view - detail

Scene Description: showing the damage to the sides; the metal staple at the back cracked the stone broken when it expanded in the cold weather; there is considerable damage shown here also to the rim on the right side, in the foreground

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view of font

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view of font - upper view

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the irregularity of the font can be appreciated here; also the modern plinth

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view of font in context

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view of font in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00693SAN
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Julián
Church Patron Saints: St. Julian
Church Location: Santillán del Agua, 09347, Burgos, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located off the BU-904, 5 km E of Lerrma (follow Burgos-Madrid to Lerma; here a left towards Covarrubias)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Historical Region: Comarca de Arlanza
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, N side [cf. FontNotes]
Date: ca. 1260-1267?
Century and Period: 13th century (mid?), Late Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful tp Pedro Lozano Huerta por his photographs of this font
Described and illustrated in Bilbao (1996) [NB: the illustration for the Santillán font in this source is wrongly captioned: fig. 108 is labelled 107 and viceversa. The image at the top right side corresponds to the Santillán font]. García de Castro Valdés (2000) notes medieval quadrangular fonts in Spain at Beloncio, Bullaso, San Isidoro de Leon, Villanueva de Valdecarzana (suggested date in the 11th century); Armentia, Bustasur, Dosante, Gormaz, Quintanillabon, Rosales, Santillan del Agua, Soto de Bureba (suggested date in the 12th or 13th century); Ripodas and Turrillas (suggested date in the 13th century). Described and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002- ) [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_SANTILLÁN_DEL_AGUA.pdf' [accessed 5 April 2023], which questions Bilbao's reading of the inscription, her identification of the sketchy figure and the association of the scratchy lines with baptismal symbolism; instead, the Enciclopedia… offers a more rational reading of the inscription: "NOS : MARTINVS : MISERACO(rdi)E DIVI(n)A : BVRGEN(sis) : EP(iscopv)S : CO(nsecravit)", which would put the font in the mandate of bishop Martin Gonzalez of Burgos, the years between 1260 and 1267. The Enciclopedia… further dismisses that it could be an earlier font re-carved. In Valle Barreda (2009), after the Enciclopedia... The work is very crude and irregular in shape, but generally rectangular with tapering sides; starting with one of the narrow sides: 1)Greek potent cross with six-petaled floral motif in a circle to the right, a human figure crudely rendered below; vertical bands of zigzag pattern on both sides 2)long side: a band of inscription towards the upper side [cf. supra], much eroded and damaged but still discernible in part; incised or scratched volutes, circles or foliage below; 3)narrow side: large Greek potent cross in the centre with smaller one in the upper left corner; 4) long side:

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.031111, -3.723611
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 1′ 52″ N, 3° 43′ 25″ W
UTM: 30T 440101 4653484

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: rectangular (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: rectangular
Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular
Drainage Notes: no lining
Font Height (less Plinth): 60 cm* / 59 cm**
Trapezoidal Basin: 80 x 93 cm* / 80 x 95.5 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * Bilbao (1996) / ** Enciclopedia del románico

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: On the visible longer side of the basin, probably wraps around embedded side(s)
Inscription Text: 1. "INDE MARGINUS MISERACO[rdi]E DIVI[n]A RUP[er]EN" 2. "NOS : MARTINVS : MISERACO(rdi)E DIVI(n)A : BVRGEN(sis) : EP(iscopv)S : CO(nsecravit)"
Inscription Source: 1. Bilbao (1996) -- 2. Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002- )

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: rectangular, flat and plain; modern

REFERENCES

Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996
Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, Centro de Estudios del Románico, 2002-
García de Castro Valdés, César, "Nuevas piezas de arqueología cristiana altomedieval en Asturias", 7 (2000), Revista de Arqueología del Área de Historia Medieval, 2000, pp. [201]-218; r["References"]
Valle Barreda, César del, Todo el románico de Burgos, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, 2009