Rinkaby nr. Örebro/ Ringkarleby

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animal - mammal - lion - devouring a human - human figure - naked

the lower half of the human's body has beenm swallowed by a lion
Scene Description: the lower half of the human's body has beenm swallowed by a lion
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930426F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=930426F2] [accessed 29 April 2020]
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animal - mammal - lion - tongue sticking out - foliated tongue

On the right of the plant/tree of life; it has one of those foliated tongues characteristic of some of the animal representations (foliated tongues and tails)
Scene Description: On the right of the plant/tree of life; it has one of those foliated tongues characteristic of some of the animal representations (foliated tongues and tails)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [3375-107.TIF] of a B&W photograph taken in 1963, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rinkaby_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200047658.jpg] [accessed 29 April 2020]
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design element - motifs - vine - ivy? - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - head - 2

Roosval identifies it as an ivy vine with two dragon heads; the vine does resemble the looped bodies of dragons as represented on many Swedish fonts
Scene Description: Roosval identifies it as an ivy vine with two dragon heads; the vine does resemble the looped bodies of dragons as represented on many Swedish fonts
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Image Source: digital image [3375-105.TIF] of a B&W photograph taken in 1963, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rinkaby_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200047647.jpg] [accessed 29 April 2020]
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inscription

Thirty Runic characters, only twenty of which are readable [text not available]
Scene Description: Thirty Runic characters, only twenty of which are readable [text not available]
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Image Source: digital image of a 1916 drawing by Georg Lindberg reproduced in Roosval (1917: fig. 25)
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symbol - tree - Tree of life - with 2 beasts

smallish tree with two large lions (?) on the sides
Scene Description: smallish tree with two large lions (?) on the sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930426F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=930426F2] [accessed 29 April 2020]
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view of basin

to judge by the background the photograph was taken in the museum
Scene Description: to judge by the background the photograph was taken in the museum
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [3375-096.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph taken by Nils Lagergren, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rinkaby_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200047605.jpg] [accessed 29 April 2020]
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view of basin

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Image Source: digital image [3375-100.TIF] of a B&W photograph taken in 1959, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rinkaby_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200047636.jpg] [accessed 29 April 2020]
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view of basin

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Image Source: digital image [3375-101.TIF] of a B&W photograph taken in 1959, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rinkaby_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200047640.jpg] [accessed 29 April 2020]
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view of basin

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Image Source: digital image [3375-105.TIF] of a B&W photograph taken in 1963, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rinkaby_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200047647.jpg] [accessed 29 April 2020]
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view of basin

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Image Source: digital image [3375-106.TIF] of a B&W photograph taken in 1963, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rinkaby_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200047651.jpg] [accessed 29 April 2020]
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view of basin

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Image Source: digital image of a 1916 drawing by Georg Lindberg reproduced in Roosval (1917: fig. 24)
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view of basin

Source caption: "Dopfunt i Ringkarleby kyrka."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Dopfunt i Ringkarleby kyrka."
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Herman Hofberg's Nerikes gamla minnen (1868) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nerikes_gamla_minnen_152b.jpg] [accessed 18 June 2021]
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view of basin - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [3375-098.TIF] of a B&W photograph taken in 1953, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rinkaby_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200047617.jpg] [accessed 29 April 2020]
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view of basin - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [3375-099.TIF] of a B&W photograph taken in 1953, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rinkaby_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200047629.jpg] [accessed 29 April 2020]
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view of basin - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [3375-102.TIF] of a B&W photograph taken in 1959, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rinkaby_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200047642.jpg] [accessed 29 April 2020]
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view of basin - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930426F2] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=930426F2] [accessed 29 April 2020]
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view of basin - projection

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a 1916 drawing by Georg Lindberg reproduced in Roosval (1917: fig. 25)
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view of basin and projection

the date of the drawing is given in Roosval reproduction of the same (1917: fig. 24 and 25) -- the drawing of the basin includes measurements
Scene Description: the date of the drawing is given in Roosval reproduction of the same (1917: fig. 24 and 25) -- the drawing of the basin includes measurements
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [3375-095.TIF] of a 1916 drawing by George Lindberg, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rinkaby_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200047602.jpg] [accessed 29 April 2020]
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view of church exterior - south view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Zeth Johansson, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 June 2015 by Zeth Johansson [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rinkaby_kyrka.jpg] [accessed 29 April 2020]
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view of church exterior in context

the medieval tower was replaced in the 1830s
Scene Description: the medieval tower was replaced in the 1830s
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Image Source: digital image [3375-028.TIF] of a 1761-63 map by Kilian Rohtkind, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rinkaby_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200047499.jpg] [accessed 29 April 2020]
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view of church interior - looking east

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Image Source: digital image [3375-052.TIF] of a B&W photograph taken in 1960 by Nils Lagergren, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rinkaby_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200047523.jpg] [accessed 29 April 2020]
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view of church interior - looking west

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Image Source: digital image [3375-067.TIF] of a B&W photograph taken in 1958 by Nils Lagergren, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rinkaby_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200047538.jpg] [accessed 29 April 2020]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 05448RIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Museum and Inventory Number: Statens Historiska Museum
Church/Chapel: Rinkaby kyrka
Church Location: Gamla Arbogavägen, Rinkaby 218, 705 96 Glanshammar, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Närke, Örebro län
Directions to Site: Located off local road T823, N of highway E18/E20, 4 km W of Glanshammar, about 10 km ENE of Örebro and in its municipality
Ecclesiastic Region: Strängnäs stift
Historical Region: Glanshammars härad, Örebro län
Font Location in Church: [In a museum]
Date: ca. 1140-1175? [Roosval] / ca. 1200? [SHM]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mellansvensk workshop / verkstad (SHM)
Church Notes: late-12thC church; expanded late-13th, late-18thC; medieval tower replaced 1830s
Font Notes:
Described and illustrated in Sveriges kyrkor: Närke (Bd. I, hft. 3: 592-593) as a footless hemispherical baptismal font of green limestone dated by Roosval to ca. 1140-1175 and by Jansson to the end of the 12th century. Noted in Kilström (181). Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930426F2] as a "mellansvensk verkstad" baptismal font made of sandstone in the late-12th century; the animals are identified as lions. The font has a flat band all around the upper rim side; on it is an incised inscription consisting of thirty Runic characters, twenty of which are "readable" according to the same source [SK: text not available]; the rest of the side surface is occupied by two large beasts to the left and right of a tree/plant (Tree of Life?) (Roosval describes it as "an ivy plant with lance-shaped leaves"; the tree is small and unassuming, but the beasts -probably lions- are very large and ferocious-looking; the one to the left of the tree has the upper body of a naked human in its jaws; the space between their backs is filled with a vine or foliage motif in which Roosval identifies two dragon heads; the lower edge of the basin appears to have a rope or diagonal groove motif all around. The upper side of the basin is damaged and there is a piece missing. The font is mounted on a wooden marble-green pillar dating from 1900. This font was found in the churchyard and brought back into the church in 1867 by Herman Hofberg; it was later taken to the Statens Historiska Museum in Stockholm where it was catalogued with inventory number 3767. The 1773 inventory of this church accounts for the presence of a "Kopper Panne" [=copper dish] in it.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 59.313889, 15.337222
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 59° 18′ 50″ N, 15° 20′ 14″ E
UTM: 33V 519198 6575053

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, [cf. FontNotes]
Number of Pieces: one (plus later pedestal)
Font Shape: hemispheric
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (inside rim): 47 cm***
Diameter (includes rim): 74 cm* / 77 cm** / 77 cm*** / 75 cm****
Basin Depth: 26 cm** / 26 cm***
Basin Total Height: 55 cm* / 53 cm** / 53 cm*** / 55 cm****
Font Height (less Plinth): 101 cm** [with modern pedestal]
Notes on Measurements: * Georg Lindberg (1916) / ** Sveriges kyrkor: Närke (Bd. I, hft. 3: 593) / *** Roosval (1917: 27) / **** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930426F2]

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: runes
Inscription Notes: Incised inscription consisting of thirty Runic characters, twenty of which are "readable" [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: on the upper rim side
Inscription Text: [text not available]
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Kilström, Bengt Ingmar, Om dopfuntarna i Strängnäs stift Strängnäs stiftsbok, 1981
Lundberg, Erik, Sveriges kyrkor: Närke, Stockholm: Generalstabens litografiska anstalts förlag (1939-1961); Almqvist & Wiksell (1970-1972), 1939-1972
Roosval, Johnny, Die Steinmeister Gottlands: Eine Geschichte der führenden Taufsteinwerkstätte des schwedischen Mittlealters, ihre Voraussetzungen und Begleit-Erscheinungen, Stockholm: A.-B. C.E. Fritzes K. Hofbokhandel, 1918
Roosval, Johnny, Dopfuntar i Statens Historiska Museum, 1917