Merida No. 2 / Emerita Augusta / Mérida

Described in Mélida (1925) as a granite baptismal font of the 16th century in Renaissance style; the basin is hexagonal and ornamented with children [putti?] and grotesque animals ["bichas y niños"]. The base is shaped like a Roman altar and has bucrania and cloth garlands ["el pie, que figura ara romana lleva bucráneos y paños a modo de guirnaldas"]. The author offers the ornamentation on this font as proof of the influence which the Roman monuments of Mérida effected on artists. (Ibid, v. 2, p. 345)