Elcoaz No. 1 / Elcóaz / Elkoatz

Described in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?-); described and illustrated in Domeño (1992): Romanesque baptismal font of the same time as the original church, i.e., ca. 1200; the roughly hemispherical basin has a horizontal roll moulding with ball motif at the upper rim, and a lower row of ball motif separated by four vertical roll mouldings, a design quite common in Navarrese fonts [NB: as several other fonts in this valley, the combination of vertical and horizantal mouldings are designed forming sketchy human figures with linked arms that surround the basin; cf. Index entries for Locking (Somerset, England) and Skodborg (Ribe amt, Jutland, Denmark), for instance, for other Romanesque fonts with fully developed figures in this pose]. The base is a truncated pyramid and is also ornamented with ball motif. The Enciclopedia del románico en Navarra (2008) notes a number of Romanesque basins of similar shape in Adoain, Aristu, Elcoaz, Jacoisti, Ayechu, Ongoz. Irurozqui, Arangozqui and Zabalza, in the same valley, and Azparren, Equiza, Uli Alto, Meoz and Igal in nearby areas. [cf. entry for Elcoaz No. 2 for a similar font, originally from nearby Arangozqui, and now located in the atrium of this church, and entry for Elcoaz No. 3 for a holy-water stoup probably of the 16th century in this church]