Limans / Limanos

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design element - motifs - garland

Scene Description: large, in the centre of the 'basin' front side, containing the Greek pattée cross

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 12 June 2001 by BSI

liturgical equipment - candle - 2

Scene Description: two candle holders with one candle in each, on the left and right of the chrismon

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 12 June 2001 by BSI

symbol - chrismon

Scene Description: Greek cross, pattée, inside the garland, with alpha and omega beneath the tranverse arms of the cross

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 12 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 November 2011 by Véronique Pagnier [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Limans_-_église_Saint_Georges.jpg?uselang=fr] [accessed 17 December 2016]

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view of church exterior - west façade - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 12 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - west portal

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 12 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - west portal - tympanum

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 November 2011 by Véronique Pagnier [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Limans_-_fronton_église_Saint_Georges.jpg?uselang=fr] [accessed 17 December 2016]

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view of church exterior - west portal - tympanum - detail

Scene Description: object listed in Palissy [ref.: PM04000185]: "sculpture encastrée dans le tympan du portail [...] pierre : taillé [...] Une croix pattée divise la pierre en quatre parties. [...] dimensions h = 90 ; la = 78 [...] siècle 11e siècle ; 12e siècle (?) [...] Epoque romane."

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 1 November 2011 by Véronique Pagnier [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Limans_-_fronton_église_Saint_Georges.jpg?uselang=fr] [accessed 17 December 2016]

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view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 12 June 2001 by BSI

view of church interior - altar

Scene Description: formerly used as baptismal font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 July 2013, in http://dignois.fr/Limans-paroisse/ [accessed 17 December 2016]

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view of church interior - altar

Scene Description: theis altar frontal was at one point used as part of the baptismal font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 12 June 2001 by BSI

view of church interior - altar - antependium, frontal

Scene Description: listed in Palissy [ref.: PM04000184]: " devant d'autel [...] calcaire [...] 12e siècle [...] L'autel sert de fonds baptismaux." [NB: at the time of the listing in Monuments historiques, in 1992, the altar frontal was still being used as a baptismal font].

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 12 June 2001 by BSI

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Scene Description: listed in Palissy [reference number not available] as "bas-relief du XIe siècle" [NB: it may be one of the objects said to have originated in the nearby rural church of Saint-Vincent]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 12 June 2001 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 04046LIM

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Georges [originally from the disappeared Eglise priorale Saint-Vincent?]

Church Patron Saints: St. George

Church Location: place de l'Eglise, 04300 Limans, France [NB: the disappeared priory of St. Vincent was located less than a km from the present church]

Country Name: France

Location: Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Directions to Site: Located off the D950, 10 km NNE of Forcalquier

Ecclesiastic Region: [formerly in the Diocèse de Sisteron]

Historical Region: Pays de Forcalquier -- Pays de Haute-Provence

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 5th - 6th century, Early Christian

Workshop/Group/Artisan: altar-font

Church Notes: present church 14thC -- there is one other altar stone preserved in this church, probably of the same early period as the font; it is rectangular and ornamented with a large 12-point star inside a garlanded circle; one of the corners is broken -- listed church in Mérimée [ref.: PA04000040]

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Described in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966-) as a leftover of a paleo-Christian marble chancel; it is now [ca. 1966] built in as the front slab and surmounted by a flat altar-stone ["un autel tabulaire"], the whole being used as baptismal font; the illustration in the source shows a rectangular side of the basin (?): at the centre, a large round garland framing a Greek pattée cross, with the letters alpha (under the right arm of the cross) and omega (under the left arm); there is a Pascal candle to either side of the garland. The source [cf. supra] dates this piece to the 5th or 6th century. On-site notes: at the time of our visit [June 2001] the altar was already re-installed in the front of the church, back to its function as altar. Its frontal stone, a marble rectangle, is indeed ornamented as stated above, and coloured in red, green and gold. [NB: the early objects in this 14th-century church may originated in a nearby priory church dedicated to St. Vincent, and now disappeared]. The entry for this church in Mérimée [ref.: PA04000040] notes: "L'église conserve des éléments d'un chancel (et d'un ambon ?) du Haut Moyen Age appartenant sans conteste au même ensemble mais dont la provenance n'a pas été établie. Découverts en 1955 ils ont été classés - partiellement - au titre des objets mobiliers en 1956 et 1957. Ils ont été réutilisés depuis comme table d'autel, antependium, et tympan. Ces éléments liturgiques en réemploi constituent, à l'heure actuelle, l'un des témoignages les plus anciens des débuts du christianisme en Haute Provence."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble

Font Shape: square (unmounted)

Basin Interior Shape: square

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Notes on Measurements: The measurements of the stone are: 110 x 75 cm; its thickness is 13 cm [BSI] -- the measurements in Palissy [ref.: PM04000184] are: "h = 113 ; la = 93"

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Greek

Inscription Location: on the altar frontal, formerly the baptismal font

Inscription Text: "Ω / Α" [omega and alpha]

Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-