Orbara

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B01: design element - architectural - arch-head - round - 2

Scene Description: without supports, one above the other

Image Source: Photograph [ca. 1943], Institución Príncipe de Viana, Archivo Uranga

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)

LB01: design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: one at each end of the stem of the base

Image Source: Photograph [ca. 1943], Institución Príncipe de Viana, Archivo Uranga

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)

LBH01: human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: at 90-degree angles

Image Source: Photograph [ca. 1943], Institución Príncipe de Viana, Archivo Uranga

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)

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Image Source: Photograph [ca. 1943], Institución Príncipe de Viana, Archivo Uranga

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)

INFORMATION

FontID: 08042ORB

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Román

Church Patron Saints: St. Romanus?

Country Name: Spain

Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra

Directions to Site: Located in the Aézcoa valley, in the merindad de Sangüesa

Font Location in Church: Under the choir

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?- , vol. IV**: 248) as a baptismal font contemporary with the original church [i.e., ca. 1200]; the hemispherical basin has two rows of schematic arcades of round arches; the conical base has an upper roll moulding with four crudely rendered human heads at 90-degree angles; the bottom of the stem ends in another roll moulding [NB: the lower part of the base is built into the floor of the alcove in the N wall in which the font stands]. Listed in the Gran Enciclopedia Navarra (1990, v. 8: 295). Described and illustrated in Domeño (1992: 169 and fig. 189). [We are grateful to the Institución Príncipe de Viana, Archivo Uranga, for their image of this font]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: Our ca. 1943 source image shows the font with a flat wooden cover secure to the basin through a metal ring around the upper rim. The later image in Domeño, ca. 1992, shows the font without the cover or the metal ring of the rim.

REFERENCES

Gran enciclopedia Navarra (11 vols.), Pamplona: Caja de Ahorros de Navarra, 1990

Domeño Martínez de Morentín, Asunción, Pilas bautismales medievales en Navarra, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, 1992

García Gainza, María Concepción, Catálogo monumental de Navarra, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, Arzobispado de Navarra, Universidad de Navarra, [1990?]

Navallas Rebolé, A., Navarra, guía y mapa, 1986