Formigal

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B01: symbol - chrismon

Scene Description: on the left side

Image Source: Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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B02: symbol - cross - Latin

Scene Description: on the left side of the font, to the right of the chrismon

Image Source: Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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B03: symbol - chrismon

Scene Description: damaged upper part

Image Source: Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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R01: design element - motifs - groove - 3

Scene Description: a triple groove ruan all round the upper surface of the rim

Image Source: Antonio García-Omedes [www.romanicoaragones.com]

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view of basin

Image Source: Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: Antonio García-Omedes [www.romanicoaragones.com]

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: Antonio García-Omedes [www.romanicoaragones.com]

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view of font - upper view

Image Source: Antonio García-Omedes [www.romanicoaragones.com]

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view of font in context

Image Source: Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 08155RUE

Church/Chapel: Iglesia del Salvador, Formigal [the font originally from the abandoned church at Ruesta]

Church Patron Saints: Our Saviour

Country Name: Spain

Location: Huesca, Aragón

Directions to Site: Formigal is located near the border pass at El Portalet / Pourtalet, 28 km NNE of Jaca [Ruesta is now an abandoned village located on the A-137, on the S shore of the Pantano de Yesa]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Juan Antonio Olañeta, of www.claustro.com, and to Antonio García-Omedes, of www.romanicoaragones.com, for their images of this font

Church Notes: The church of Our Saviour [Iglesia del Salvador] now at Formigal was originally in Basarán, towards Biescas, but was 'transplanted' in the 1960s to the present site at Formigal. The font itself is originally from the abandoned church at Ruesta

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Monolithic baptismal font of the 12th century. It is originally from the abandoned church at Ruesta. The font is a good early specimen of quadrangular vessel, slightly trapezoidal with the upper area a little wider than the bottom; the front side is ornamented with a chrismon inside a circle the upper part of which has been cut off by the indentation made for the lock [the lock is now missing]; the left side bears a similar chrismon in the centre of the panel, as well as a Latin cross inscised in the upper right corner; the right side and the back appear plain.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: rectangular (unmounted)

Basin Interior Shape: rectangular

Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Greek

Inscription Location: in the arms of the chrismons, on two of the sides of the basin

Inscription Text: [alpha-omega-chi-rho]

Inscription Source: Image Area

LID INFORMATION

Notes: The font must have had an early -though not original- mounted cover because the upper front side has an indentation made for the lock; this indentation must have been done later, otherwise the chrismon would have been carved either lower down or smaller