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Results: 3 records

B01: design element - motifs - palmette

several, a/p description in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- )
Scene Description: several, a/p description in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- )

B02: symbol - cross

several, a/p description in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- )
Scene Description: several, a/p description in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- )

B03: human figure - head

several, a/p description in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- )
Scene Description: several, a/p description in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- )

INFORMATION

FontID: 04177VIL
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Abbaye de Saint-Orens [orig. from Orliac]
Country Name: France
Location: Hautes-Pyrénées, Occitanie
Directions to Site: Located near Argeles-Gazost
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque
Font Notes:
Described in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- ) as a Romanesque stoup originally from the hamlet of Orliac; it has a square basin and a columnar base; the capitals of the squat columns of the base are ornamented with human heads, palmettes and crosses; the same source points out that the stem is not the original.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

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