Santa Comba de Bande No. 1

Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 9 October 2017)

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph 27 June 2014 by Pedro Paulo Palazzo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santa_Comba_de_Bande-_Paintings_on_the_apse_vault_(14526262947).jpg] [accessed 4 October 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.0

inscription

Scene Description: partially visible

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2017 by Antonio Daban

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 9 October 2017)

view of basin - interior - drain

Scene Description: note the plugged drain hole

Image Source: BSI - Photographed May 31, 2005

view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph 27 June 2014 by Pedro Paulo Palazzo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santa_Comba,_Bande,_exterior_(14712548645).jpg] [accessed 4 October 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.0

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2008 by Adrián Estévez (Estevoaei) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SCBande.jpg] [accessed 4 October 2015]

Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church interior - apse - painting - detail

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view of church interior - chancel and east end

Image Source: digital photograph 27 June 2014 by Pedro Paulo Palazzo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santa_Comba_de_Bande-_Apse_(14526036680).jpg] [accessed 4 October 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.0

view of church interior - chancel arch - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 27 June 2014 by Pedro Paulo Palazzo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santa_Comba_de_Bande-_Arco_cruzeiro_(14732550753).jpg] [accessed 4 October 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.0

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 June 2007 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_de_Santa_Comba_de_Bande.jpg] [accessed 4 October 2015]

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view of font

Image Source: BSI - Photographed May 31, 2005

view of font

Image Source: BSI - Photographed May 31, 2005

view of font

Image Source: BSI - Photographed May 31, 2005

view of font

Scene Description: note that the uncut part of the font is now against the north wall

Image Source: BSI - Photographed May 31, 2005

INFORMATION

FontID: 04921COM

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Iglesia de Santa Comba de Bande / Igreja de Santa Comba de Bande

Church Patron Saints: St. Columba of Spain

Church Location: 32845 Bande, Orense/Ourense, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Orense / Ourense, Galicia

Directions to Site: Located 11 km S of Orense capital

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the N wall of the nave

Century and Period: 4th - 5th century [re-used], Roman [altered]

Cognate Fonts: Other such fonts, converted from Roman altars and other objects

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg and to Antonio Daban Royo for their photographs of this object

Font Notes: Click to view

Illustrated in Castro Pérez (2001: pl. 58): a former Roman altar converted for use as baptismal font: the monolithic object has had a crude basin carved on it and now has a rough chalice-shape look; parts of the original Latin inscription can still be seen on it. If the shape of the object now is any indication, the conversion may have been done in the Middle Ages, perhaps in the 12th or 13th century. Described and illustrated in Rodríguez Cao & Alvarez Estrada (1996 c1994), who identify the object not as an altar but as a milestone, which accounts for the inscription locating the site 51 miles from Braga. [cf. Index entry for Santa Comba de Bande No. 2 for a later baptismal font located in the churchyard]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 41.973072, -8.002412

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 41° 58′ 23.06″ N, 8° 0′ 8.68″ W

UTM: 29T 582653 4647268

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: other [cf. FontNotes]

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Notes on Measurements: [no measurements taken, but the outer diameter is approximately 50-60 cm]]

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Notes: There are remains of the original Latin inscription, but some of the surface has been cut off to convert the altar into a baptismal font. The transcription quoted from Rodríguez Cao & Alvarez Estrada (1996 c1994: 49) -- indicates the distance of 51 miles from Bracara [Braga]

Inscription Location: side of the base, at the back

Inscription Text: [IMP(eratori) CAES(ari)] DIVI T[raiani PARTHICI F(ilio) DIVI NER] VAE [NEPOTI TRAIANO HADRIANO AUG(usto) PONTI]FICI [MAX(imo). TRIB(unicia) POT(estate)? C] O(n)S(uli) III P(atri) P(atriae) A BRACARA M(ilia) PASUUM] LI

Inscription Source: Castro Pérez (2001: pl. 58); Rodríguez Cao & Alvarez Estrada (1996 c1994: 49)

REFERENCES

Castro Pérez, Ladislao, Sondeos en la arqueología de la religión en Galicia y norte de Portugal: Trocado de Bande y el culto jacobeo, Vigo: Universidade de Vigo, 2001

Rodríguez Cao, Celso, Santa Comba de Bande, [Bande?]: Concello de Bande, 1996 c1994