Barcelona No. 11
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B01: symbol - anagram? (chrismon?)
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view of stoup
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montserrat Estela, 2005
Image Source: Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]
Copyright Instructions: Image and Permission received (email of 25 January 2005)
INFORMATION
FontID: 07927BAR
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Iglesia de los Santos Justo y Pastor / S. Just i Pastor / Basílica de los Santos Mártires Justo y Pastor
Church Patron Saints: St. Justus & St. Pastor
Church Location: Plaça de Sant Just, s/n, 08002 Barcelona, Spain -- Tel.: +34 933 01 74 33
Country Name: Spain
Location: Barcelona, Cataluña / Catalunya
Font Location in Church: Wall-mounted by the sacristy door, S side
Century and Period: 7th - 8th century, Byzantine
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Montserrat Estela, of Barcelona, Spain, for her photograph of this stoup
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. XX: 25) as a holy-water stoup made of white marble and dated to the 6th-7th century. Described in Art romà... (1999: 244) as a former Byzantine capital recycled as holy-water stoup; wall-mounted by the sacristy door, on the S side; it is ornamented anagrams inscribed in circles. This same source speculates that it may have been taken from Constantinople to Barcelona -via Sicily- during the 4th Crusade in the 13th century [cf. Index entry for Barcelona No. 13 for another stoup, and Barcelona No. 14 for the baptismal font of this church]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: round (wall-mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 3 cm [except at the angles] [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 37 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 43 cm
Height of Basin Side: 37 cm
Basin Total Height: 37 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 37 cm
Notes on Measurements: Art romà... (1999: 244)
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Greek?
Inscription Notes: as described in the source
Inscription Location: on the sides
Inscription Text: r+Y N or H+r or O, B, Q, K and at the centre Q / T+r, N, w, C or E / Y+O
Inscription Source: Art romà... (1999: 244)
REFERENCES
Del romà al romànic: història, art i cultura de la Tarraconense mediterrània entre els segles IV i X, Barcelona: Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1999
Ainaud, J., Catálogo monumental de España: la Ciudad de Barcelona, 1947
Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-
Mateu i Llopis, Felipe, "La ceca visigoda de Barcelona", 16 (1943), Analecta Sacra Tarraconensia, 1943, pp. 45-46; p. 45-46
Mehling, Franz N., Spain: a Phaidon Cultural Guide, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985