Equiza / Ekiza
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Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)
Results: 5 records
BBL01: design element - motifs - moulding or piping - ball (human figure?)
Scene Description: row of balls separated by the vertical mouldings, as well as forming a sketchy human being linking its arms with the next at both sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003
Image Source: Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier (Pamplona, Spain)
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)
BBU01: design element - motifs - rope - ball
Scene Description: row of balls surmounting the rope moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003
Image Source: Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier (Pamplona, Spain)
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)
LB01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003
Image Source: Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier (Pamplona, Spain)
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)
LB02: design element - motifs - ball
Scene Description: several
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003
Image Source: Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier (Pamplona, Spain)
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003
Image Source: Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier (Pamplona, Spain)
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 04664EQU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: Very similar to the fonts at Azparren and Meoz, also in Navarra. "Human figure" motif also in the font at Elcoaz, in Navarra
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Martín [abandoned?]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, under the west gallery
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Church Address: c/ San Martin, Equiza / Ekiza 31439, Navarra, Spain [despoblado / abandoned]
Site Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: The now abandoned village is located off (W) the NA-2045, in the municipality and valley of Arce, about 30 km E of Pamplona
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Pamplona
Historical Region: Merindad de Sangüesa
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?-). Described in Domeño (1992); Romanesque baptismal font; hemispheric basin with a combination of vertical and horizontal mouldings and ball motif often found in Navarrese fonts: upper roll moulding surmounted with row of balls; lower row of balls separated with the vertical mouldings [NB: as several other fonts in Navarra, 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 cone with ball motif on the lower part and a roll moulding on the upper. 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. Noted in Plazaola Artola (2008?) as Romanesque.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Institución Príncipe de Viana and the photographers Larrión & Pimoulier, of Pamplona, Spain, for the images of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 641297 4745597
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.8499, -1.2707
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 50′ 59.64″ N, 1° 16′ 14.52″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat wooden lid
REFERENCES
- Domeño Martínez de Morentín, Asunción, Pilas bautismales medievales en Navarra, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, 1992, p. 43, 112, 146-147 and pl. 34 on p. 45
- Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico en Navarra, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, Centro de Estudios del Románico, 2008, vol. 1: 158
- García Gainza, María Concepción, Catálogo monumental de Navarra, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, Arzobispado de Navarra, Universidad de Navarra, [1990?], vol. IV*: 104 and pl. 139
- Plazaola Artola, Juan, "El arte gótico en Euskal Herria", hiru.com [Etengabeko Ikaskuntza], [2008?]
- Urrutia, R. M., "Tres pilas bautismales de gran interés en el valle de Arce"", 1974, Cuadernos de Etnología y Etnografía Navarra, 1974, pp. 159-161; p. 159