Salardu No. 3 / Salardú

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B01: design element - motifs - floral - 6-petal - in a circle

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2012 by Isaías Gonzalo Solís

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 January 2014)

B02: design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis?

Scene Description: shaped like a cup with three arms

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2012 by Isaías Gonzalo Solís

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 January 2014)

B03: symbol - cross - Greek - in a circle

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2012 by Isaías Gonzalo Solís

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2012 by Isaías Gonzalo Solís

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 January 2014)

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 September 2003 by Javier Torrens for BSI

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05230SAL

Church/Chapel: Església de Sant Andrèu / Sant Andreu / Sant Andrieu

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Church Location: Plaça de l'església, 25598 Salardú, Vall d'Aran, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Lérida / Lleida, Cataluña / Catalunya

Directions to Site: Salardú is located in the municipality of Naut Aran, about 10 km E of Vielha / Viella

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Lérida

Historical Region: Terçó de Pujòlo -- Valle de Aran / Vall d'Aran

Font Location in Church: Carved into a pillar, on the north side

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

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Javier Torrens, of Pamplona, Spain, and to Isaías Gonzalo Solís, for their photographs of this object

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Described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984- , v. xiii): p. 376, as a niche carved into one of the columns of the north side; it is shaped like a round arch; there are three motifs ornamenting it, described in the source as two circles on the sides of a cup-like motif that has three arms, resembling a fleur-de-lis ["com si fos una flor de lis"]; the circle on the right has a Greek cross inscribed in it, while the one on the left contains a radial arrangement of six petals. There two metal hooks on the front side of the basin, one at each side of the freeze-like panel that contains the ornamentations mentioned above. The source expresses a doubt as to the function of this niche and whether or not it is really a stoup.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.70751, 0.90199

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 42′ 27.04″ N, 0° 54′ 7.16″ E

UTM: 31T 328183 4730469

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: rectangular (wall-mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: rectangular

Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular

REFERENCES

Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-