Hanger in Värnamo / Hånger

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Christ - Agnus Dei - with cross - processional cross - foliated tail and tongue - acanthus - passant

Scene Description: the quadruped here looks very much like the lions typical of Bestiarius, even with the acanthus-like tail and tongue; passant to the right
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910712F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910712F4#] [accessed 13 October 2020]
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animal - fabulous animal or monster - amphisbaena - three heads - passant

Scene Description: passant to the right; the two main heads face different directions: one forward, the other backwards; a small head at the end of the tail, as expected in an amphisbaena
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910712F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910712F4#] [accessed 13 October 2020]
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animal - mammal - lion - foliated tail - patterned body - interlace - passant-regardant

Scene Description: although all the animals on this font have some degree of patterning on their bodies, most of the patterns are located on their manes; on this animal there is a curly mane around the neck but the middle of the body is covered in a 2-strand interlace
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910712F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910712F4#] [accessed 13 October 2020]
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animal - mammal - lion - foliated tail and tongue - acanthus - passant
![the SHM caption for this animal identifies a human bone in its jaws [="lejon med mänskligt ben i munnen"]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1201013056_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the SHM caption for this animal identifies a human bone in its jaws [="lejon med mänskligt ben i munnen"]
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910712F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910712F4#] [accessed 13 October 2020]
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animal - mammal - lion - foliated tail and tongue - acanthus - passant

Scene Description: seen here in the right arch; passant to the left
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910712F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910712F4#] [accessed 13 October 2020]
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animal - mammal - lion - foliated tail and tongue - acanthus - passant-regardant

Scene Description: seen here in the left arch; passant to the left
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910712F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910712F4#] [accessed 13 October 2020]
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animal - unidentified - protome - 4

Scene Description: protruding animal upper bodies set at 90-degree angles of the centre riope moulding; their front legs resting on the angular moulding below
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910712F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910712F4#] [accessed 13 October 2020]
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animal - unidentified - protome - 4

Scene Description: protruding animal upper bodies set at 90-degree angles of the lower riope moulding; their front legs resting on the square moulding below
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910712F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910712F4#] [accessed 13 October 2020]
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 6 - beaded-tape motif - columns - columns with capitals

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910712F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910712F4#] [accessed 13 October 2020]
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design element - motifs - braid - 2-strand

Scene Description: all around
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910712F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910712F4#] [accessed 13 October 2020]
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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: on the sides of the angular moulding; they all appear to be foliage
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910712F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910712F4#] [accessed 13 October 2020]
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design element - motifs - foliage or plant - 6

Scene Description: one in each of the spandrels of the arcade
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910712F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910712F4#] [accessed 13 October 2020]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: on the lower volume of the base, with four animal protomes set at 90-derree angles
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910712F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910712F4#] [accessed 13 October 2020]
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design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: a broad one just below the underbowl; four animal heads set at 90-degree angles in its sides
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910712F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910712F4#] [accessed 13 October 2020]
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design element - motifs - sawtooth or zigzag

Scene Description: all around
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910712F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910712F4#] [accessed 13 October 2020]
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view of basin - detail
![Source caption: "Hångers kyrka [...] Dopfunt i sandsten, detalj, med djurmotiv. Från den medeltida kyrkan. Anonymmästaren Bestiarius skola. Slutet av 1100-talet."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0201013047_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hångers kyrka [...] Dopfunt i sandsten, detalj, med djurmotiv. Från den medeltida kyrkan. Anonymmästaren Bestiarius skola. Slutet av 1100-talet."
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Image Source: digital image [2022-024.TIF] of a 1919 B&W photograph by Gotthard Johansson, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hångers_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200082231.jpg] [accessed 13 October 2020]
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view of basin - detail
![Source caption: "Hångers kyrka [...] Dopfunt i sandsten, detalj, med djurmotiv. Från den medeltida kyrkan. Anonymmästaren Bestiarius skola. Slutet av 1100-talet."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0201013048_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hångers kyrka [...] Dopfunt i sandsten, detalj, med djurmotiv. Från den medeltida kyrkan. Anonymmästaren Bestiarius skola. Slutet av 1100-talet."
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Image Source: digital image [2022-025.TIF] of an undated B&W in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hångers_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200082232.jpg] [accessed 13 October 2020]
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view of basin - detail
![Source caption: "Hångers kyrka [...] Dopfunt i sandsten, detalj, med djurmotiv. Från den medeltida kyrkan. Anonymmästaren Bestiarius skola. Slutet av 1100-talet."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0201013049_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hångers kyrka [...] Dopfunt i sandsten, detalj, med djurmotiv. Från den medeltida kyrkan. Anonymmästaren Bestiarius skola. Slutet av 1100-talet."
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Image Source: digital image [2022-026.TIF] of an undated B&W in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hångers_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200082313.jpg] [accessed 13 October 2020]
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view of basin - detail
![Source caption: "Hångers kyrka [...] Dopfunt i sandsten, detalj, med djurmotiv. Från den medeltida kyrkan. Anonymmästaren Bestiarius skola. Slutet av 1100-talet."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0201013050_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hångers kyrka [...] Dopfunt i sandsten, detalj, med djurmotiv. Från den medeltida kyrkan. Anonymmästaren Bestiarius skola. Slutet av 1100-talet."
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Image Source: digital image [2022-027.TIF] of an undated B&W in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hångers_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200082330.jpg] [accessed 13 October 2020]
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view of basin - detail
![Source caption: "Hångers kyrka [...] Dopfunt i sandsten, detalj, med djurmotiv. Från den medeltida kyrkan. Anonymmästaren Bestiarius skola. Slutet av 1100-talet."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0201013051_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hångers kyrka [...] Dopfunt i sandsten, detalj, med djurmotiv. Från den medeltida kyrkan. Anonymmästaren Bestiarius skola. Slutet av 1100-talet."
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Image Source: digital image [2022-028.TIF] of an undated B&W in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hångers_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200082331.jpg] [accessed 13 October 2020]
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view of basin - detail
![Source caption: "Hångers kyrka [...] Dopfunt i sandsten, detalj, med djurmotiv. Från den medeltida kyrkan. Anonymmästaren Bestiarius skola. Slutet av 1100-talet."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0201013052_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hångers kyrka [...] Dopfunt i sandsten, detalj, med djurmotiv. Från den medeltida kyrkan. Anonymmästaren Bestiarius skola. Slutet av 1100-talet."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2022-029.TIF] of an undated B&W in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hångers_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200082332.jpg] [accessed 13 October 2020]
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view of basin - iconographic program
view of church exterior - gravestone
![Source caption: "Hångers kyrkplats [...] Gravsten, nummer 19." [NB: a gravestone from the churchyard of the demolished church]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0201013042_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hångers kyrkplats [...] Gravsten, nummer 19." [NB: a gravestone from the churchyard of the demolished church]
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Image Source: digital image [11398-017.TIF] of a 1938 B&W photograph by Egil Lönnberg, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hångers_kyrkplats_-_KMB_-_16000200132858.jpg] [accessed 15 October 2020]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
view of church exterior in context - northwest view
view of church exterior in context - south view
![Erik Ferdinand Ihrfors' drawing of the old church at Hånger appeared in his Smalandia Sacra; it is shown here in a 1938 photograph of the original ink drawing [NB: the old church was demolished in 1882]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0201013043_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Erik Ferdinand Ihrfors' drawing of the old church at Hånger appeared in his Smalandia Sacra; it is shown here in a 1938 photograph of the original ink drawing [NB: the old church was demolished in 1882]
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Image Source: digital image [2022-004.TIF] of a 1938 photograph of an undated [pre-1882?] drawing in Ihrfors' Smolandia Sacra, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hångers_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200082200.jpg] [accessed 13 October 2020]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
![Source caption: "Hångers kyrka [...] eckning av gamla kyrkan." [NB: the old church was demolished in 1882]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0201013044_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hångers kyrka [...] eckning av gamla kyrkan." [NB: the old church was demolished in 1882]
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Image Source: digital image [2022-005.TIF] of an undated [pre-1882?] drawing in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hångers_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200082201.jpg] [accessed 13 October 2020]
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view of church interior - looking east
![Source caption: "Hångers kyrka [...] Interiör mot öster." [NB: the medieval font is partially visible in the chancel, right [south] side]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0201013053_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hångers kyrka [...] Interiör mot öster." [NB: the medieval font is partially visible in the chancel, right [south] side]
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Image Source: digital image [2022-021.TIF] of an undated B&W in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hångers_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200082224.jpg] [accessed 13 October 2020]
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view of church interior - northeast view
![Source caption: "Hångers kyrkplats [...] Koret, grunden, från nordöst." [NB: the bending man is in what appears to have been the chancel of the demolished church]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0201013041_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hångers kyrkplats [...] Koret, grunden, från nordöst." [NB: the bending man is in what appears to have been the chancel of the demolished church]
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Image Source: digital image [11398-009.TIF] of a 1938 B&W photograph by Egil Lönnberg, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hångers_kyrkplats_-_KMB_-_16000200132850.jpg] [accessed 15 October 2020]
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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910712F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910712F4#] [accessed 13 October 2020]
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