Berriozar

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B01: design element - patterns - ribbed

Scene Description: covering the basin sides all the way down

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Image Source: Photograph [ca. 1943], Institución Príncipe de Viana, Archivo Uranga

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BBU01: symbol - star - in a circle

Scene Description: a band of 4-, 6- and 8-point stars right at the upper basin side

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Image Source: Photograph [ca. 1943], Institución Príncipe de Viana, Archivo Uranga

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BBU02: symbol - cross - in a circle

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Image Source: Photograph [ca. 1943], Institución Príncipe de Viana, Archivo Uranga

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LB01: design element - motifs - ball - 4

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Image Source: Photograph [ca. 1943], Institución Príncipe de Viana, Archivo Uranga

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Image Source: Photograph [ca. 1943], Institución Príncipe de Viana, Archivo Uranga

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INFORMATION

FontID: 04598BER
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Esteban
Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen
Country Name: Spain
Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra
Directions to Site: Located in the 6 km NW of Pamplona
Font Location in Church: In a chapel of the N side
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: the font at Azoz, also in Navarra
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Institución Príncipe de Viana, of Pamplona, Spain, for the image of this font from their Archivo Uranga
Described and illustrated in the Gran Enciclopedia Navarra (1990, v. 2: 397 and ill. on p. 398) and in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?- , vol. V*: 49 and pl. 47): Romanesque, chalice-shaped baptismal font of the 12th or 13th century; the round basin has a band of 4-, 6- and 8-point stars at the rim, the rest of the basin being ornamented with ribbed pattern all the way to the base. The base is a cylindrical pedestal with four ball motifs right under the basin. The lower base is built into the floor of the church. The font has a plain wooden cover, flat and modern. Noted in the Enciclopedia del románico en Navarra (2008) with a basin similar to the one in Azoz, on an inverted capital, like the one in nearby Berrioplano.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 108 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [measurement a/p the Enciclopedia del románico en Navarra (2008)]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat plain wooden lid; modern

REFERENCES

Gran enciclopedia Navarra (11 vols.), Pamplona: Caja de Ahorros de Navarra, 1990
Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico en Navarra, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, Centro de Estudios del Románico, 2008
García Gainza, María Concepción, Catálogo monumental de Navarra, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, Arzobispado de Navarra, Universidad de Navarra, [1990?]