Embrun No. 4 / Eburodunum

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animal - mammal - lion - couchant

Scene Description: a basin has been mounted on its back to serve as holy-water stoup

Image Source: photograph taken 25 June 2001 by BSI

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Image Source: photograph taken 25 June 2001 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 04994EMB

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale [ancienne cathédrale] Notre-Dame du Réal [sometime known as Notre-Dame-des-Rois]

Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen

Church Location: place Auguste Thouard, 05200 Embrun, France

Country Name: France

Location: Hautes-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Directions to Site: Embrun is 37 km E of Gap, at the extreme NE side of the Lac de Serre-Ponçon, 86 km SW of Briançon, down the N94 (near the Italian border)

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Gap

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, attached to one of the colums of the west end of the nave

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Cognate Fonts: many others such animals used as bases of columns in the south of France and Italy

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On-site notes: a lovely couchant lion (?) of the type [stylofore] often found in Italian and south-eastern French churches serving as bases of columns, pulpits, etc. In this case it appears that the object may have been recycled by adding a stone basin on top and making it into a holy-water stoup. The porch of this church has two similar couchant lions (one holds a cub?, the other a child, as is common in these parts) serving as bases for the columns there.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 44.5622, 6.495

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 44° 33′ 43.92″ N, 6° 29′ 42″ E

UTM: 32T 301069 4937371

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble (composite)

Font Shape: hemispherical (mounted on an animal base)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Notes on Measurements: [no measurements taken]