Ubani

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B01: design element - patterns - ribbed

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BBU01: symbol - star - in an octagon

Scene Description: or wheel in an octagon

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BBU02: design element - motifs - floral - rosette - in an octagon

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R01: design element - motifs - rope moulding

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view of basin's top

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view of font

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view of font in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 08072UBA
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Martín
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Country Name: Spain
Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra
Directions to Site: Located off the NA-7110, near Zabalza, 14 km W of Pamplona
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a niche or alcove, beneath the W gallery,on the N side
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: Fonts at Aldaba, Azoz, Echarri, Ollacarizqueta and Urroz Villa, according to the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?-)
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Javier Torrens, of Pamplona, Spain, for his photogrraphs of this font
Described in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?-) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period; the large hemispherical basin is ornamented with ribbed pattern; at the upper rim it has a rope moulding; on the upper basin side runs a band of rosettes and stars [Domeño (1992) describes them as wheels, which, rightly, they could be] inscribed in octagons. Described in Domeño (1992) much in the same terms, but points out that the two elements of the base are modern. Illustrated in the Gran Enciclopedia Navarra (1990). The Enciclopedia del románico en Navarra (2008) notes that one of the circles, the one at the front of thje basin side, inscribes actually a little cross symbol. This same source remarks on the continuing use of this type of inscribed motif in Navarrese fonts in the medieval period up to and including the 17th century.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat wooden cover; plain; appears modern

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
Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico en Navarra, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, Centro de Estudios del Románico, 2008
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