Bovalar / El Bovalar / Bobala Seros / Bobalá
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Scene Description: a visualization of a baptism in the Bovalar font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Museu de Lleida? [2006?]
Image Source: B&W reproduction of a drawing captioned 'Museu de Lleida', in Achim Arbeiter (2003, fig. 22)
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view of font and canopy, baldachin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Schlunk, 1978
Image Source: photograph in Schlunk (1978, pl. 59)
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INFORMATION
FontID: 08384BOV
Museum and Inventory Number: Museu Arqeològic de l'Institut d'Estudis Ilerdencs
Church/Chapel: Basílica Paleocristiana del Bovalar [now in the Museu Arqeològic de l'Institut d'Estudis Ilerdencs]
Country Name: Spain
Location: Lérida / Lleida, Cataluña / Catalunya
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Century and Period: 6th century, Early Christian
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984- ): quadrangular baptismal font of the 6th century from the early-Christian basilica of El Bovalar; the quadrangular basin is made up of several large stone blocks which form the parapet that would have stood above ground; on the upper side of the blocks are the bases of the columns that would have formed the covering arches. Described and illustrated in Schlunk (1978). Noted and illustrated in Arbeiter (2003) with an interesting rendition of a 6th-century baptism in the font. Noted with some measurements in Ferguson (2009)
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: quadrangular (sunken)
Basin Interior Shape: quadrangular
Basin Exterior Shape: quadrangular
Basin Depth: 80 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [a/p Ferguson (2009)]
REFERENCES
Arbeiter, Achim, "Los edficios de culto cristiano: escenario de la liturgia", Repertorio de arquitectura cristiana en Extremadura: época tardoantigua y altomedieval, Mérida: Instituto de Arqueología de Mérida, 2003
Ferguson, Everett, Baptism in the Early Church: history, theology, and liturgy in the first five centuries, Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2009
Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-
García de Castro Valdés, César, Arqueología cristiana de la alta Edad Media en Asturias, Oviedo: Real Instituto de Estudios Asturianos, 1995
Schlunk, Helmut, Die Denkmäler der frühchristlichen und westgotischen Zeit, Mainz am Rhein: P. von Zabern, 1978