Asa

Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
animal - fabulous animal or monster - centaur - holding his tail - foliated tail - passant-regardant
animal - fabulous animal or monster - unidentified - quadrupe - winged - holding cross or mace - passant

Scene Description: passant to the left; its font leg holds an object resembling a processional cross or a cross-topped mace, like the one held by the warrior in the fight scene
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910721F2] [accessed 5 September 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
animal - fabulous animal or monster - unidentified - quadruped - winged - holding cross or mace - passant - detail

Scene Description: passant to the left; its font leg holds an object resembling a processional cross or a cross-topped mace, like the one held by the warrior in the fight scene
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910721F2] [accessed 5 September 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
animal - fabulous animal or monster - winged lion - foliated tongue - passant

Scene Description: passant to the left; identified as lion in the SHM caption: "bevingat lejon"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910721F2] [accessed 5 September 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
animal - mammal - lion - holding his tail - foliated tail - passant-regardant

Scene Description: passant to the left; identified as lion in the SHM caption: "tillbakablickande lejon"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910721F2] [accessed 5 September 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
animal? - 4

Scene Description: only some front legs remain of whatever animals were carved atop the mid section of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 6 July 2011 by Ulf Klingström [Ulkl] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asa_kyrka_int10.jpg] [accessed 5 September 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-Zero
animal? - head or protome - 4

Scene Description: set at 90-degree angles on the lower base level; practically nothing left of them now
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 6 July 2011 by Ulf Klingström [Ulkl] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asa_kyrka_int10.jpg] [accessed 5 September 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-Zero
design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - 7 - columns - double columns - columns with capitals - beaded-tape

Scene Description: both arches and columns are made of beaded-tape pattern
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910721F2] [accessed 5 September 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
design element - motifs - braid
design element - motifs - foliage - 7
design element - motifs - foliage or vine

Scene Description: on the sides of the hanging platmorm in the middle of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 6 July 2011 by Ulf Klingström [Ulkl] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asa_kyrka_int10.jpg] [accessed 5 September 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-Zero
design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: on the lower level of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 6 July 2011 by Ulf Klingström [Ulkl] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asa_kyrka_int10.jpg] [accessed 5 September 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-Zero
design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: it has lost its pattern on some areas of its surface
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 6 July 2011 by Ulf Klingström [Ulkl] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asa_kyrka_int10.jpg] [accessed 5 September 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-Zero
design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: only a small part of its bottom visible here
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 6 July 2011 by Ulf Klingström [Ulkl] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asa_kyrka_int10.jpg] [accessed 5 September 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-Zero
design element - patterns - sawtooth or zigzag
design element - patterns - scalloped, sawtooth or zigzag

Scene Description: very faint now, between the rope moulding and the sides of the hanging platmorm in the middle of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 6 July 2011 by Ulf Klingström [Ulkl] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asa_kyrka_int10.jpg] [accessed 5 September 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-Zero
design element - patterns - scalloped, sawtooth or zigzag

Scene Description: a row of, below the rope moulding of the lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 6 July 2011 by Ulf Klingström [Ulkl] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asa_kyrka_int10.jpg] [accessed 5 September 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-Zero
human figure - warrior - holding mace in his right hand - holding shield in his left hand - dragon - two-headed dragon - fighting

Scene Description: the end of the mace is cross-shaped, and is similar to the object being held by one of the fabulous beasts in another arch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910721F2] [accessed 5 September 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
view of basin - detail
![Source caption: "Asa kyrka [...] Teckning av detalj på dopfunt. Av Per Vistrand 1881."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210905013_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Asa kyrka [...] Teckning av detalj på dopfunt. Av Per Vistrand 1881."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2059-003.TIF] of a 1881 drawing by Per Vistrand, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asa_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200068126.jpg] [accessed 5 September 2021]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
view of basin - detail
![Source caption: "Asa kyrka [...] Teckning av detalj på dopfunt. Av Per Vistrand 1881."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210905014_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Asa kyrka [...] Teckning av detalj på dopfunt. Av Per Vistrand 1881."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2059-004.TIF] of a 1881 drawing by Per Vistrand, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asa_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200068127.jpg] [accessed 5 September 2021]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
view of basin - detail
![Source caption: "Asa kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten, 1100-talet. Detalj."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210905016_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Asa kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten, 1100-talet. Detalj."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2059-006.TIF] of a 1926 B&W photograph by Rahnar Blomqvist, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asa_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200068129.jpg] [accessed 5 September 2021]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
view of basin - detail
![Source caption: "Asa kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten, 1100-talet. Detalj."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210905017_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Asa kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten, 1100-talet. Detalj."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2059-007.TIF] of a 1926 B&W photograph by Rahnar Blomqvist, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asa_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200068130.jpg] [accessed 5 September 2021]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
view of basin - detail
![Source caption: "Asa kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten, 1100-talet. Detalj."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210905018_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Asa kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten, 1100-talet. Detalj."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2059-008.TIF] of a 1926 B&W photograph by Rahnar Blomqvist, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asa_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200068131.jpg] [accessed 5 September 2021]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
view of basin - iconographic program
view of church exterior - northeast view
view of church exterior - southeast view
view of church exterior in context - south view
![Source caption: "Asa kyrka [...] Kyrkan från söder."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210905011_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Asa kyrka [...] Kyrkan från söder."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2059-001.TIF] of a 1918 B&W photograph by Paul Boberg, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asa_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200068124.jpg] [accessed 5 September 2021]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
view of church interior - looking east
![Source caption: "Kyrkorum i Asa kyrka" -- showing the medieval baptismal font on the right [south] side, behind the piano](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1210905021_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kyrkorum i Asa kyrka" -- showing the medieval baptismal font on the right [south] side, behind the piano
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph 6 July 2011 by Ulf Klingström [Ulkl] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asa_kyrka_int02.jpg] [accessed 5 September 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-Zero
view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: " Kyrkorum i riktning mot orgelläktare i Asa kyrka" -- partially showing the baptismal dish on the font in the foreground, to the right of the piano
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph 6 July 2011 by Ulf Klingström [Ulkl] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asa_kyrka_int05.jpg] [accessed 5 September 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-Zero
view of font
![Source caption: "Asa kyrka [...] Teckning av dopfunt. Av Per Vistrand 1881." [NB: the date on the drawing appears to be 6 August 1881]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210905012_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Asa kyrka [...] Teckning av dopfunt. Av Per Vistrand 1881." [NB: the date on the drawing appears to be 6 August 1881]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2059-002.TIF] of a 1881 drawing by Per Vistrand, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asa_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200068125.jpg] [accessed 5 September 2021]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
view of font
![Source caption: "Asa kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten, 1100-talet."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210905015_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Asa kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten, 1100-talet."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2059-005.TIF] of a 1926 B&W photograph by Rahnar Blomqvist, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asa_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200068128.jpg] [accessed 5 September 2021]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
view of font
view of font and baptismal dish

Scene Description: Source caption: "Dopfunt i Asa kyrka"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph 6 July 2011 by Ulf Klingström [Ulkl] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asa_kyrka_int10.jpg] [accessed 5 September 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-Zero