Mataro / Mataró
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symbol - cross - Greek - pattée
INFORMATION
FontID: 07929MAT
Museum and Inventory Number: Museu de Mataró
Church/Chapel: [formerly in Santa Maria de Mataró]
Country Name: Spain
Location: Barcelona, Cataluña / Catalunya
Font Location in Church: [in a museum -- formerly in the sacristy of Santa Maria, in Mataro]
Century and Period: 6th century, Byzantine
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Described in Art romà... (1999: 243) as a former Byzantine Ionic capital mounted on a large impost that was recycled as baptismal font and used at the church of Santa Maria; the inpost is a quadrangular piece of prismatic shape; the basin/capital has four drain holes, only one of which remains open; like some other Barcelona pieces originating in Constatinople it was priobably taken over during the 4th Crusade, via the south of Italy or Sicily.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, marble
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: capital-shaped (mounted)
Drainage Notes: [cf. Font notes]
Notes on Measurements: [source measurements problem]
REFERENCES
Del romà al romànic: història, art i cultura de la Tarraconense mediterrània entre els segles IV i X, Barcelona: Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1999