Escunyau No. 2 / Escunhau / Escuñau
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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
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view of stoup
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 1999 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 02395ESC
Object Type: Stoup
Date Visited: 1999-06-18
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: Gausac / Gaussac
Church / Chapel Name: Sant Pere / Sant Pèir / San Pedro
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, to the left of the entrance
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: Camin Bosc d'Arto Costa, 30, 25539 Escunhau, Lleida, Spain
Site Location: Lérida / Lleida, Cataluña / Catalunya, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: In the Vall d'Aran, 2.5 kms E of Vielha on the Bonaigua road
Historical Region: Valle de Aran / Vall d'Aran
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984- ) as a Romanesque holy-water stoup of the 13th century; the cylindrical basin has an elegant vine motif covering the sides; below it, a rope moulding under which the stone has been cut in a chamfer to meet the base. On-site notes: the basin is a typical work of the Aran Romanesque; the base, probably redone later, is square but recut in a round pattern at the top to meet the underbowl [NB: the basin appeared unmounted in the illustration in Catalunya romànica of ca. 1984, but it was mounted as shown in our photograph in June 1999]. Listed in Mestre i Godes (1999). Noted in Amiell (2007).
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 321852 4729418
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.69661, 0.825073
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 41′ 47.8″ N, 0° 49′ 30.26″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble (local)
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: no drainage system
Rim Thickness: 7-8 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 28 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 43-44 cm *[41 cm]
Basin Depth: 12 cm
Height of Basin Side: 20 cm
Basin Total Height: 25 cm *[24 cm]
Height of Base: 67 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 92 cm
Square Base Dimensions: 29 x 35 cm
Notes on Measurements: BSI *[Catalunya rom... (1984- , v. XIII: 418)]
LID INFORMATION
Apparatus: no
REFERENCES
- ACTUR (www.actur.com/romai.htm], 1999. [URL discontinued / non active].
- Amiell, Josep M., "Piques baptismal de la Val d'Aran", 21 (agost-setembre 2007), Taüll, 2007, pp. 32-35; p. 33
- Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-, vol. XIII: 418
- Mestre i Godes, Jesús, Viatge al romànic català: les valls pirenenques, Barcelona: RACC Club-Edicions 62, 1999, p. 81