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design element - motifs

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02261ZAM
Church/Chapel: Iglesia de San Martín de Arteaga
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin
Church Location: Plaza de La Encarnación 9B, 48006 Bilbao, Spain -- Tel: (34) 944 320 125
Country Name: Spain
Location: Vizcaya / Bizkaia, País Vasco / Euskadi
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: 12thC church; re-built 1545 and 18thC
The basin has vertical sides 2/3 down, tapering off to meet the narrower base on the last 1/3; there are three striated ball motif (resembling a shell?) and one resembling an animal head on the sides, near the rim. The cylindrical base has four wide vertical ribs finished with a motif similar to the three on the basin sides (Lopez Domech, 1985, p.52). The entry for this church in the Auñamendi Eusko Entziklopedia [https://aunamendi.eusko-ikaskuntza.eus/es/zamudio/ar-145867-128928/] [accessed 21 February 2025] reports a "Pila bautismal románica" in it.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 43.284678, -2.866788
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 43° 17′ 4,84″ N, 2° 52′ 0,44″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: chalice-shaped
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

López Domech, Ramón, Románico de Vizcaya, Bilbao: Caja de Ahorros Vizcaína, 1985