Metz No. 1
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Fonts baptismaux de la Cathédrale Saint-Étienne de Metz Kopf"
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Image Source: digital photograph 4 March 2025 by Moleskine [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fonts_baptismaux_de_la_Cathédrale_Saint-Étienne_de_Metz_Kopf.jpg] [accessed 6 April 2025]
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Metz (Moselle) - Cathédrale Saint-Étienne - Cuve baptismale. Authentique baignoire romaine, en porphyre."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Patrick, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 23 September 2017 by Patrick [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Metz_(Moselle)_-_Cathédrale_Saint-Étienne_-_Cuve_baptismale_(40280166273).jpg] [accessed 6 April 2025]
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Fonts baptismaux (cuvette des fonts baptismaux)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2025
Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP57W00838] [accessed 6 April 2025]
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Fonts baptismaux (cuvette des fonts baptismaux)"
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Image Source: digital photograph 6 November 2020 by Frank Genestoux [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP80L055922] [accessed 6 April 2025]
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animal - mammal - tiger - head
Scene Description: Source caption: "Fonts baptismaux (cuvette des fonts baptismaux)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2025
Image Source: digital photograph 6 November 2020 by Frank Genestoux [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP80L055922] [accessed 6 April 2025]
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design element - architectural - ring - 2
Scene Description: Source caption: "Fonts baptismaux (cuvette des fonts baptismaux)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2025
Image Source: digital photograph 6 November 2020 by Frank Genestoux [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP80L055922] [accessed 6 April 2025]
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Vue de la cathédrale Saint-Étienne de Metz depuis les quais de la Moselle, place de la Préfecture."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tertulien, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph 2 August 2006 by Tertulien [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cathedrale-saint-etienne-metz-de-place-prefecture.jpg] [accessed 6 April 2025]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Metz"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © CD photographie, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph 13 April 2013 by CD photographie [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Metz_-_0239_(8647317939).jpg] [accessed 6 April 2025]
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Scene Description: Source caption: " Fonts Baptismaux Cathédrale Saint-Étienne de Metz. En fait une ancienne baignoire romaine."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Oimabe, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 11 July 2011 by Oimabe [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fonts_Baptismaux_Cathédrale_de_Metz.jpg] [accessed 6 April 2025]
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Metz (Moselle) - Cathédrale Saint-Étienne - Cuve baptismale. Authentique baignoire romaine, en porphyre."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Patrick, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 23 September 2017 by Patrick [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Metz_(Moselle)_-_Cathédrale_Saint-Étienne_-_Cuve_baptismale_(40280166273).jpg] [accessed 6 April 2025]
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Metz"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Morgaine, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 11 August 2014 by Morgaine [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Metz_(15147584716).png] [accessed 6 April 2025]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 03534MET
Object Type: Other
Object Details: vat, porphyry, Roman
Font Century and Period/Style: 4th - 5th century, Roman
Church / Chapel Name: Cathédrale Saint-Étienne de Metz
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, towards the end of the lower N end
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Stephen
Church Notes: Ottonian basilica ca. 1040built on an ancient 5thC(?) site; re-built 13thC with many modifications since -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00106817]: "12e siècle ; 16e siècle ; 19e siècle ; 20e siècle"
Church Address: 2 Pl. de Chambre, 57000 Metz, France
Site Location: Meurthe-et-Moselle, Grand Est, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Metz is located 35-40 km S of the border with Luxembourg. The cathedral is located towards the N of the historical city centre, just S of the river
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Metz
Historical Region: Lorraine
Additional Comments: recycled font: an ancient vat from Roman times, elliptical in shape and made of porphyry, which has a tiger's head and two large rings as ornamentation on its front side
Font Notes:
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Corblet (1881-1882) describes this font as being an ancient vat from Roman times, elliptical in shape and made of porphyry, which has a tiger's head and two large rings as ornamentation on its front side. Jolin (2001) describes the font as a former bath-tub from the Roman terme. made of dark red porphyry, and ornamented with rings and lion heads. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM57000152]: "Fonts baptismaux (cuvette des fonts baptismaux) [...] Porphyre [...] H = 92 ; l = 295 ; pr = 156 (Dimension au bord supérieur) ; Dimensions au pied : l = 213, pr = 98. Hauteur intérieure : h = 61 [...] Bas-côté nord, extrémité ouest [...] Pas [sic] sa forme, cette cuve romaine fait penser à une grande baignoire [...] Si l'origine romaine de la cuve ne fait pas de doute, sa provenance reste cependant incertaine. La forme fait supposer qu'elle ait servi aux thermes publics. La présence ininterrompue de la cuve dans la cathédrale est attestée depuis des siècles, de même sa destination comme fonts baptismaux jusqu'à une époque assez récente. Les eaux lustrales y étaient conservées il y a quelques années." Illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: AP80L055922, AP57W00838]
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 293910 5444638
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.12, 6.1754
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 7′ 12″ N, 6° 10′ 31.44″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, porphyry (red)
Number of Pieces: one?
Font Shape: oval
Basin Interior Shape: oval
Basin Exterior Shape: oval
Diameter (includes rim): 298 cm (widest diameter of the oval)
Basin Total Height: 93 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 93 cm
Notes on Measurements: Corblet's measurements (Corblet, 1881-1882, v. 2, p. 131)
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and plain, fitting the shape of the font top
REFERENCES
- Corblet, Jules, Histoire dogmatique, liturgique et archéologique du sacrement de baptême, Paris: V. Palme, 1881-1882, vol. 2, p. 131
- France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.
- France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.
- France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Palissy (France, Ministère de la culture), France, Ministère de la culture. URL: http://www.culture.fr/public/mistral/palissy.
- Jolin, Jean-Louis, Lanterne du Bon Dieu, La: la Cathédrale Saint-Etienne de Metz, Woippy: Serpenoise, 2001, p. 77