Langtora / Långtora
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animal - mammal - horse - head - bridled
Scene Description: one of the four heads on the base sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stockholms Historiska Museum, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Lennart Karlsson, in Stockholms Historiska Museum [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=940622F2] [accessed 16 September 2013]
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animal - reptile - snake?
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Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stockholms Historiska Museum, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Lennart Karlsson, in Stockholms Historiska Museum [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=940622F2] [accessed 16 September 2013]
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animal - unidentified - head - 3
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stockholms Historiska Museum, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Lennart Karlsson, in Stockholms Historiska Museum [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=940622F2] [accessed 16 September 2013]
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design element - motifs - leaf or spur - 4
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stockholms Historiska Museum, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Lennart Karlsson, in Stockholms Historiska Museum [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=940622F2] [accessed 16 September 2013]
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design element - motifs - ring - 4
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stockholms Historiska Museum, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Lennart Karlsson, in Stockholms Historiska Museum [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=940622F2] [accessed 16 September 2013]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: several
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stockholms Historiska Museum, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Lennart Karlsson, in Stockholms Historiska Museum [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=940622F2] [accessed 16 September 2013]
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design element - patterns - ribbed - diagonal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stockholms Historiska Museum, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Lennart Karlsson, in Stockholms Historiska Museum [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=940622F2] [accessed 16 September 2013]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 March 2010 by Zejo [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Långtora.jpg] [accessed 16 September 2013]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Johan Dellbeck, Upplandsmuseet, 2003
Image Source: digital image taken 18 January 2003 by Johan Dellbeck, Upplandsmuseet [ref.: DIG002654] [http://www.digitaltmuseum.se/things/dopfunten-i-lngtora-kyrka-lngtora-socken/S-UM/DIG002654] [accessed 16 September 2013]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 05323LAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Långtora kyrka
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Uppsala, Uppsala län
Directions to Site: Located 10-12 km ENE of Enköping, 35-40 km WSW of Uppsla (follow rd. 55 south for about 20 km, then a left turn on a local road to Långtora)
Ecclesiastic Region: Uppsala Stift
Historical Region: Enköpings kn, Uppland
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century [Carlsson], Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Paradise font / Paradisenfunten / Baegerbladsfonte / Muschelcuppen / Musselcuppor / Musselcuppstyp [SHM]
Font Notes:
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Described and partially illustrated in Carlsson (1976) who mentions "the head of a bridled horse" as one of the four figures on the truncated cone of the base. Listed and illustrated in the Medeltidens bildvärld of the Stockholms Historiska Museum [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/] [accessed 16 September 2013]: a baptismal font of the 13th century made of Gotland limestone; it consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin of the 'musselcuppstyp' decorated with diagonal ribbed pattern, raised on a round pedestal base decorated with four animal heads, one of them a bridled horse; around the heads threads a rope-like object that is probably a windig serpent, but it is tethered to the base by a set of rings, all of it carved, of course. The four animal heads hark back at the four heads found in earlier Gotland fonts of the Romanesque period; the lower base is round-to-square with leaves or spurs at the corners.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 59.717069, 17.143144
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 59° 43′ 1.45″ N, 17° 8′ 35.32″ E
UTM: 33V 620545 6621850
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Gotland limestone)
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
REFERENCES
Carlsson, Frans, The Iconology of Tectonics in Romanesque Art, Hässleholm: AM-Tryck, 1976