Sainte-Hermine / Ste-Hermine
Results: 4 records
B01: design element - motifs - scroll
Scene Description: all around the sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Musée des antiquités nationales (St-Germain-en-Laye) [n.d.]
Image Source: Gischia (1939)
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
B02: symbol - cross - greek - in a circle - 3
Scene Description: a large one in the centre, two smaller ones to the sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Musée des antiquités nationales (St-Germain-en-Laye) [n.d.]
Image Source: Gischia (1939)
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
view of stoup
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Musée des antiquités nationales (St-Germain-en-Laye) [n.d.]
Image Source: Gischia (1939)
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
INFORMATION
Font ID: 04550HER
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: 6th - 7th century, Early Christian
Museum: Musée des antiquités nationales, St-Germain-en-Laye, near Paris, Unknown
Church / Chapel Name: [originally from the Église Notre-Dame de Sainte-Hermine]
Font Location in Church: [In a museum]
Church Address: 50 Rue de l'Église, 85210 Sainte-Hermine, France
Site Location: Vendée, Pays de la Loire, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Sainte-Hermine is located off the A63 (dir. Nantes), SE of La Roche-sur-Yon. The Musée des antiquités nationales is in St-Germain-en-Laye, just 10 km from Paris.
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Gischia (1939) as a 6th or 7th century holy-water stoup made of varnished clay; it is now [1939] in the Musée des antiquités nationales, but was originally from Sainte-Hermine in Vendée. The illustration shows an oblong, without a base and with two handles, one at each end; the visible side has vertical lines and snake-like motifs, plus three crosses inside circles: a large one in the centre and two small on the sides.
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 46.5575, -1.0559
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 46° 33′ 27″ N, 1° 3′ 21.24″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: ceramic, clay (varnished)
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: oblong, unmounted
Basin Exterior Shape: oblong
REFERENCES
- Gischia, Arts primitifs français, Paris: Éditions arts et métiers graphiques, 1939, pl. 6 and caption in the Index des planches [unpaged]