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Apostle or saint - haloed

Scene Description: No definite identification; St. Adoeno? St. John? [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph October 2000 by Anne & Thomas Heck

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the authors

Christ - haloed - right hand raised in benediction - left hand holding book

Scene Description: Facing front, torso only

Image Source: digital image of a photograph October 2000 by Anne & Thomas Heck

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angel - holding objects - showing wings

Scene Description: The angel appears to be holding a torch

Image Source: digital image of a photograph October 2000 by Anne & Thomas Heck

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the authors

animal - bird - eagle - holding book in its beak

Scene Description: In flight, moving/looking towards the right

Image Source: digital image of a photograph October 2000 by Anne & Thomas Heck

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the authors

design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: vertical and horizontal, brace-like

Image Source: digital image of a photograph October 2000 by Anne & Thomas Heck

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the authors

view of church exterior - west façade

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bisceglie. Facciata della chiesa di S. Adoeno"

Image Source: digital photograph 12 October 2012 by Geppi Simone [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Bisceglie_Chiesa_Sant'Adoeno_7.JPG?uselang=it] [accessed 4 April 2025]

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Scene Description: Source caption: "fonte battesimale - ambito pugliese (fine/inizio secc. XI/ XII)"

Image Source: digital image of a 1989 B&W photograph in the Catalogo generale dei Beni Culturali [https://catalogo.beniculturali.it/detail/HistoricOrArtisticProperty/1600040300] [accessed 4 April 2025]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bisceglie. Chiesa di Sant'Adoeno. Fonte battesimale del XI secolo."

Image Source: digital photograph 12 October 2012 by Geppi Simone [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Bisceglie_Chiesa_Sant'Adoeno_18.JPG?uselang=it] [accessed 4 April 2025]

Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 03479BIS

Church/Chapel: Chiesa di Sant'Adoeno

Church Patron Saints: St. Owen [aka Audoen, Audoenus, Audoin, Dado, Ouen]

Church Location: Largo Sant'Adoeno, 70052 Bisceglie BA, Italy

Country Name: Italy

Location: Barletta-Andria-Trani, Puglia

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the SS16 [aka via Giovanni Bovio], N of the SP13, about 20 km E of Andria, about 40 km WNW of Bari

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 11th - 12th century (?), Romanesque

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Anne & Thomas Heck for their information on and photographs of this font

Church Notes: intra muros church built in 1074;

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Listed and illustrated in the Catalogo generale dei Beni Culturali [https://catalogo.beniculturali.it/detail/HistoricOrArtisticProperty/1600040300] [accessed 4 April 2025]: " CODICE DI CATALOGO NAZIONALE 1600040300 [...] fonte battesimale - ambito pugliese (fine/inizio secc. XI/ XII) [...] Fusto modanato. Vasca decorata a bassorilievo". Chalice font with strong Byzantine influence. The church itself dates from 1074 but the font is probably from the 12th century. The basin has a narrow rim under which there are four sculptures (L->R): 1)an eagle (?) with a book in its beak; 2)torso of Christ, with crossed halo, right hand raised in benediction, the left holding a book; 3)haloed male figure holding object with right hand, the left holding his chasuble (?) [he may be S. Adoeno, the patron saint of the church, though Cosmai (1989) suggests John the Evangelist; he appears to be wearing a deacon's chasuble]; 4)angel showing its wings and holding an object [a torch?] with both hands. The stem of the base is quadrangular and has brace-like mouldings on the sides as ornamentation.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 41.240933, 16.502061

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 41° 14′ 27.36″ N, 16° 30′ 7.42″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite

Number of Pieces: three

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted) -- chalice-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 10 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 103 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 123 cm*

Basin Depth: 40 cm*

Basin Total Height: 55 cm*

Height of Base: 49 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 104 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Anne & Thomas Heck for BSI (all measurements approximate).

REFERENCES

Cosmai, Mario, Bisceglie turistica, Bari: Levante Editore, 1989