Otumba No. 2
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design element - motifs - floral
Scene Description: it may be a pre-Columbian motif
view of stoup
INFORMATION
FontID: 06900OTU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial [Ex-Convento de San Nicolás de Bari]
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Country Name: Mexico
Location: México
Directions to Site: Located between Axapusco to the N, and Tepetlaoxtoc to the S, E of Teotihuacan
Font Location in Church: In the baptistery, to the right of the entrance
Century and Period: 16th - 17th century, Tequitqui
Church Notes: The ex-convento, the smallest in the Americas, opened again in September 2000, after several years of reconstruction
Font Notes:
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Described in Reyes-Valerio (2000: 311) as a holy-water stoup on which a floral motif somewhat resembling a tetrafoil appears [NB: a drawing of the motif appears in this source: fig. 29 on p. 311]. The 'Enciclopedia de los pueblos de México' (2001) [www.e-local.gob.mx] [accessed 21 May 2006] includes an illustration captioned "Pila bautismal de la Parroquia de Otumba" that shows two objects, presumably the baptismal font and a holy-water stoup; the latter consists of a large basin somewhat of quatrefoil shape, with decorated sides, raised on a plain cylindrical stem; the stoup (?) is large enough to be used as a baptismal font, though smaller than the font itself; they both stand in the baptistery area of the church, near the entrance [cf. Index entry for Otumba No. 1 for the baptismal font in this church]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Reyes-Valerio, Constantino, Arte indocristiano, México, D.F.: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 2000