Hamneda
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Results: 21 records
B01: animal - mammal - quadruped - unidentified - passant-regardant
Scene Description: passant to the left
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken by Lennart Karlsson, in the SHM’s database Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910617F2] [accessed 27 December 2019]
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B02: Christ - Agnus Dei - with cross - passant-regardant
Scene Description: passant to the left
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken by Lennart Karlsson, in the SHM’s database Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910617F2] [accessed 27 December 2019]
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B03: animal - mammal - quadruped - unidentified - passant-regardant
Scene Description: passant to the left
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken by Lennart Karlsson, in the SHM’s database Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910617F2] [accessed 27 December 2019]
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B04: animal - mammal - quadruped - unidentified - passant - fleur-de-lis
Scene Description: passant to the left
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken by Lennart Karlsson, in the SHM’s database Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910617F2] [accessed 27 December 2019]
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B05: animal - mammal - quadruped - unidentified - passant-regardant - fleur-de-lis
Scene Description: the the turned head of the animal is biting or licking its tail, itself head-shaped -- passant to the left
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken by Lennart Karlsson, in the SHM’s database Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910617F2] [accessed 27 December 2019]
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B06: animal - mammal - quadruped - unidentified - flaming tongue - passant
Scene Description: passant to the left
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken by Lennart Karlsson, in the SHM’s database Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910617F2] [accessed 27 December 2019]
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B07: animal - mammal - lion - passant-regardant - bi-corporate - crrowned
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken by Lennart Karlsson, in the SHM’s database Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910617F2] [accessed 27 December 2019]
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animal - head - unidentified - devouring a human head
Scene Description: four of them, at 90-degree angles on the lower base
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken by Lennart Karlsson, in the SHM’s database Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910617F2] [accessed 27 December 2019]
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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - beaded-tape - 7
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken by Lennart Karlsson, in the SHM’s database Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910617F2] [accessed 27 December 2019]
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design element - motifs - ball, bead or pellet
Scene Description: inscribed in an oval; at least two of them in the spandrels of the arcade
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken by Lennart Karlsson, in the SHM’s database Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910617F2] [accessed 27 December 2019]
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design element - patterns - beaded-tape
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken by Lennart Karlsson, in the SHM’s database Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910617F2] [accessed 27 December 2019]
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design element - patterns - gadrooned or ribbed
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken by Lennart Karlsson, in the SHM’s database Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910617F2] [accessed 27 December 2019]
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symbol - cross
Scene Description: inscribed ian oval; in at least two of the spandrels of the arcade
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken by Lennart Karlsson, in the SHM’s database Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910617F2] [accessed 27 December 2019]
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view of basin - iconographic program
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Blomqvist (1929)
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pklarsson, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 October 2010 by Pklarsson [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hamneda_kyrka.jpg] [accessed 27 December 2019]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hamneda kyrkoruin" -- in the foreground is the old church with its detached bell-cote
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken ca. 1890, Riksantikvarieämbetet [11359-005.TIF] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hamneda_kyrkoruin_-_KMB_-_16000200132732.jpg] [accessed 27 December 2019]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hamneda kyrka med Lagan i förgrunden"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pklarsson, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 October 2010 by Pklarsson [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hamneda_kyrka_och_Lagan.jpg] [accessed 27 December 2019]
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "Den medeltida dopfunten. Blyertsteckning av Per Gustaf Vistrand, 10 maj 1880."
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Image Source: digital image of a 10 May 1880 drawing by Per Gustaf Vistrand, taken 6 July 2015 by Lars Kennerstedt / Kulturmiljöbild [htsm0113], Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hamneda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000535163.jpg] [accessed 27 December 2019]
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "Den medeltida dopfunten. Tuschteckning av Olof Sörling, juni 1886."
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Image Source: digital image of a June 1886 drawing by Olof Sörling, taken 6 July 2015 by Lars Kennerstedt / Kulturmiljöbild [htsm0114], Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hamneda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000535165.jpg] [accessed 27 December 2019]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2019
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken by Lennart Karlsson, in the SHM’s database Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910617F2] [accessed 27 December 2019]
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view of font and cover - west side
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Image Source: digital image of a 1915 B&W photograph by Ture J. Arne / Kulturmiljöbild [1860-001.TIF] Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hamneda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200081253.jpg] [accessed 27 December 2019]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06276HAM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Hamneda kyrka
Church Location: Hamneda kyrkby, 340 13 Hamneda, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 372 500 14
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Småland, Kronobergs län
Directions to Site: Located just E of the E4, in the municipality and 12-15 km SSW of Ljungby
Ecclesiastic Region: Växjö stift
Historical Region: Sunnerbo härad, Ljungby kn, Kronobergs län
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end [not its original location]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Hamnedagruppen [Johansson] / Huvudmästarnas efterföljare, Sunnerbogruppen [Blomqvist , Borg] / Bestiariusgruppen [SHM] / Bestiarius, Group 6 [Drake]
Cognate Fonts: others in those groups
Font Notes:
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Johansson (1925) places this font in the 'Hamnedagruppen'. Noted in Blomqvist (1929) in his chapter on fonts by the 'Huvudmästarnas efterföljare', in the Sunnerbogruppen. Inventoried and illustrated in Borg (2002) as a 'Sunnerbrogruppen' baptismal font made of sandstone ca. 1170. Listed as a baptismal font of the Bestiarius workshop (Group 6) in Drake (2002: 183). Noted and illustrated in the SHM’s database Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910617F2] as a 'Bestiariusgruppen"sandstone font of the 12th century, decorated with seven arches of beaded-tape pattern inscribing an Agnus Dei and several quadrupeds, one of them a bicorporate and crowned centaur; at least two of the spandrels of the arcade are crosses inscribed in ovals; the round-to-square base has animal heads devouring human heads at the four corners. No cover present.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 56.699556, 13.852722
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 56° 41′ 58.4″ N, 13° 51′ 9.8″ E
UTM: 33V 429746 6284531
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (inside rim): 55 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 73 cm* / 72 cm**
Basin Depth: 28.5 cm*
Basin Total Height: 39 cm*
Height of Base: 42 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 81 cm* / 82 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * Borg (2002) / ** SHM’s database Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910617F2]
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [ImageArea]
REFERENCES
Blomqvist, Ragnar, Studier i Smålands romanska stenkonst, 1929
Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002
Johansson, Gotthard, "En romansk dopfuntsgrupp i Småland", vol. 8, no. 3-4 (1925), RIG-Kulturhistorisk tidskrift, 1925, pp. [206]-225; p. 223