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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus - with arum bunches

Scene Description: Garzya Romano (1988: 280) says grapes but the vine is probably meant to be acanthus

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 29 May 2017 by Giulio Sitongia, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in the Antica Biblioteca Rossanese [www.anticabibliotecarossanese.it/chiese-di-rossano/fonte-battesimale-del-patire/] [accessed 21 April 2019]

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information

Scene Description: the museum label next to the exhibited font

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inscription

Scene Description: notice that the basin has no drain

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2017 by Giulio Sitongia, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in the Antica Biblioteca Rossanese [www.anticabibliotecarossanese.it/chiese-di-rossano/fonte-battesimale-del-patire/] [accessed 21 April 2019]

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inscription

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inscription - detail

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inscription - detail

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symbol - cross - Greek - 4

Scene Description: at 90-degree angles on the underbowl

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symbol - fruit - arum or grapes

Scene Description: Garzya Romano (1988: 280) says grapes but the vine is probably meant to be acanthus

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view of church exterior - east view

Scene Description: showing the triple apse of the church of the Abbazia di Santa Maria del Patire

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 June 2016 by Mboesch [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rossano-santa-maria-del-patire-a.jpg] [accessed 21 April 2018]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: showing the north and the west portals of the church of the Abbazia di Santa Maria del Patire

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 11 June 2016 by Mboesch [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rossano-santa-maria-del-patire-c.jpg] [accessed 21 April 2018]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: showing the magnificent mid-12thC (?) mosaics in the foreground

Image Source: undated digital photograph taken by Rossella Tedesco, in the blog of Chiara Salvini [www.neldeliriononeromaisola.it/2018/11/249264/] [accessed 21 April 2019]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the font in the context of the display area in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; standing on the left is the photographer, Giulio Sintongia

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Scene Description: the font in the context of the display area in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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INFORMATION

FontID: 04914PAT

Museum and Inventory Number: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Church/Chapel: originally from the Abbazia di Santa Maria del Patire di Rossano / Chiesa di Santa Maria del Pàtire (o Pathirion)

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: [address of the abbey] [Unnamed Rd], 87067 Rossano CS, Italy

Country Name: Italy

Location: Cosenza, Calabria

Directions to Site: The original abbey is located off an unnamed road just E of the Torrente Cino, accessible from the N from the SS106, 4-5 km W of Rossano village, 30-40 km NE of Cosenza, as the crow flies

Font Location in Church: in a museum

Date: 1137

Century and Period: 12th century,

Cognate Fonts: Garzya Romano (1998: 280) gives the font from the monastery of Our Saviour of Messina [now at the national museum in this town] as similar an almost of the same date. [cf. entry for SS. Salvatore dell'Acroterio]

Church Notes: the founder of the abbey and possible sponsor of the font was Bartolomeo da Simeri [Bartholomew of Grottaferrata?]

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The ABR (Antica Biblioteca Rossanese) entry in 'Il Patire e il Font Battesimale' [www.anticabibliotecarossanese.it/chiese-di-rossano/fonte-battesimale-del-patire/] [accessed 21 April 2019] notes that the first reference known to this font was made by Gregorio Paicentini in 1757 when he writes about inscriptions in "marmoreo vase quod in templo nostri Coenobi, vulgo Patir noncupati servatur" in "De siglis veterum Græcorum opus posthumum et De Tusculano Ciceronis nunc crypta-ferrata d. Basilii Cardoni … disceptatio apologetica, Romae 1757." The ABR (Ibid.) notes also Emilia Zinzi's description of the font in her “Sugli studi Bizantini”(in Rubbettino 1991 a cura IRACEB – Rossano): "con le sue alte valenze formali, la conca si presenta come prodotto d’arte colta, documento della dignità culturale, che il cenobitismo greco di Calabria e di Sicilia aveva assunto con la riorganizzazione voluta da Ruggero. Si definisce così un clima creativo, che non è quello di un’isolata produzione monastica, ma di un’attività fiorita sul piano di un programma politico-religioso, ch’è quello da cui, nello stesso tempo, muovono rifondazioni e attività costruttiva dei monasteri italo-greci, favorite dai Normanni." The ABR entry (ibid.) gives the following description of this font: "Il Fonte Battesimale, in marmo bianco, è di forma emisferica allungata su base unica circolare e misura 67,31 cm di altezza e un diametro di 62,23. La profondità del bacino è di cm 35 e lo spessore del labbro è di cm 4,5. ull’orlo superiore è incisa in caratteri greci un’iscrizione. Sull’esterno del Fonte predomina un gusto prevalente di fasce ornate con perizia disegnativa ed esecutiva e ci sono decorazioni bidimensionali disposte in forma di fascia formata da due nastri ondulati e bisolcati, desinenti in spighe e fogliami stilizzati. Il tutto si collega a una cultura scultorea medievale legata alle grandi tematiche teologiche e simboliche del battesimo, morte e rinascita dell’uomo in Cristo." Described in Garzya Romano (1988: 280) as a baptismal font originally from the church of Santa Maria del Pátir, a monastery located between Rossano and Corigliano; it was donated to the Metropolitan Meseum of Art of New York in 1917 by J. Pierpont Morgan. Garzya Romano (ibid.) describes it as a marble basin raised on a base shaped like truncated cone; the basin is ornamented with reliefs "faisant allusion à la fonction de l'objet" (Ibid.): four Greek crosses and, above these, a band of ringlets, grapes and foliage; it also bears a Greek inscription "qui nous renseigne sur l'époque ou le commanditaire de l'oeuvre", the sponsor being probably Bartholomew (Ibid.) This same source states that an analogous example, also commissioned by Bartholomew in 1135 for the monastery church of Our Saviour of Messina [SS. Salvatore dell'Acroterio], is now kept at the Museo nazionale di Messina [cf. BSI entry for Messina No. 3]. The ABR (Ibid.) mentions that the font is mentioned in Pudelko (1932) as a font at the MET originally from "Santa Maria del Patos in Calabria". The same source provides an image with the original Greek text of the inscription, and a translation of the Greek text into Italian by of Antonio Tranchina; an English version of it would be: "This vessel was made In the time of the mighty King Roger, when the venerable Luca gained the leadersip of the monks, in the year 6645 since the beginning of time".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 39.5718, 16.5698

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 39° 34′ 18.48″ N, 16° 34′ 11.28″ E

UTM: 33S 634834 4381410

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble

Font Shape: round (mounted) -- goblet-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 4.5 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 62.23 cm*

Basin Depth: 35 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 67. 31 cm*

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Greek

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: Basin upper rim

Inscription Text: [Engflish translation: "This vessel was made In the time of the mighty King Roger, when the venerable Luca gained the leadership of the monks, in the year 6645 since the beginning of time"]

Inscription Source: [BSI translation of the Greek text through the Italian translation of Antonio Tranchina]

REFERENCES

Garzya Romano, Chiara, Calabre et Basilicate romanes, La Pierre-qui-Vire, Yonne: Zodiaque, 1988

Pudelko, Georg, Romanische Taufsteine, Berlin: Wurfel Verlag, 1932