Betz-le-Chateau / Betz-le-Château

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B01: design element - motifs - foliage

patterned all around the basin sides
Scene Description: patterned all around the basin sides

INFORMATION

FontID: 06178BET
Object Type: Stoup
Museum and Inventory Number: Dépôt lapidaire de la Société archéologique de Touraine, Hôtel Babou de la Bourdaisière, Place Foire-le-Roi, Tours
Church/Chapel: [originally from Betz-le-Château]
Country Name: France
Location: Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire
Directions to Site: Dépôt lapidaire de la Société archéologique de Touraine, Hôtel Babou de la Bourdaisière, Place Foire-le-Roi, Tours
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Century and Period: 3rd - 4th century [re-used], Gallo-Roman [altered]
Font Notes:
Described and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes d'Indre-et-Loire (2001, v. 1: 534) as a tub-shaped holy-water stoup ornamented with foliage pattern all around; it was re-carved from a Gallo-Roman column of the 3rd or 4th century, perhaps a votive column.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 75 cm
Basin Total Height: 55 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 55 cm
Notes on Measurements: Le patrimoine des communes d'Indre-et-Loire (2001, v. 1: 534)

REFERENCES

Le Patrimoine des communes d'Indre-et-Loire, Paris: FLOHIC, 2001