Abechuco / Abetxuko / Abuchucu / Avoggoco
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Abetxukuko San Migel elizaren atariko kapitela"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ibai1984, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 19 February 2023 by Ibai1984 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abetxukuko_San_Migel_elizako_kapitela.jpg] [accessed 22 June 2024]
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Abetxukuko San Migel Elizaren ataria"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ibai1984, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 19 February 2023 by Ibai1984 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abetxukuko_San_Migel_Elizaren_ataria.jpg] [accessed 22 June 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Abetxukuko San Migel eliza"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ibai1984, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 19 February 2023 by Ibai1984 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abetxukuko_San_Migel_eliza.jpg] [accessed 22 June 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 07409ABE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1, base only
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 16th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Miguel / Abetxukuko San Migel eliza
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the altar table
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Notes: 13thC church; much modified 16thC
Church Address: Abetxuku Kalea, 10, 01013 Abechuco / Abetxuko, Alava, Spain
Site Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off road A-1, E of the N-622, in the municipality and just N of Vitoria-Gasteiz, on the N bank of the Zadorra river
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Vitoria
Historical Region: La Llanada alvesa
Additional Comments: recycled font: the remaining base serves now as support for the altar table
Font Notes:
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Described in Bilbao (1994: 107) as the remaining base of a medieval baptismal font, ornamented with claws and masks; it is now [ca. 1994] used as support for the altar table. Bilbao (ibid.) cites entry by Portilla and Enciso Viana in the Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria. It is noted in the entry for this church in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/alava_ABETXUKO.pdf] [accessed 22 June 2024]: "Otro elemento medieval que encontramos en el interior de la iglesia de San Miguel de Abetxuko es el pie de la pila bautismal que hoy se utiliza para sustentar la mesa del altar. Se trata de una columna con basa de garras y mascarones borrados en ellas, tal y como lo describe Micaela Portilla en el Catálogo Monumental" [cf. supra]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 526197 4747044
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42º 52,781' N, 2º 41,106' W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
REFERENCES
- Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria, 1968, vol. IV: 136
- Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Simbolismo e Iconografía Bautismal en el Arte medieval Alavés, 1994, p. 107
- Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico, Fundación Santa María la Real, 2020+. URL: www.romanicodigital.com.