Marialba de la Ribera No. 1 / Sancta Maria de Alva
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![Source caption: "Maqueta de la Basílica paleocristiana de Marialba de la Ribera. Escala 1:75, en sección e idealizada. Museo de León (León, España)." [NB: the baptismal font, seen here in one of the four quadrangles attached to the southwest end of the basilical church, is of the sunken piscina type, as illustrated in Schlunk's 1978 work]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1190428007_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Maqueta de la Basílica paleocristiana de Marialba de la Ribera. Escala 1:75, en sección e idealizada. Museo de León (León, España)." [NB: the baptismal font, seen here in one of the four quadrangles attached to the southwest end of the basilical church, is of the sunken piscina type, as illustrated in Schlunk's 1978 work]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Perez (DPC), 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 February 2014 by David Perez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leon_17_museo_by-dpc.jpg] [accessed 28 April 2019]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: the ruins of the basilica
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Perez (DPC), 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 October 2012 by David Perez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marialba_de_la_Ribera_07_iglesia_by-dpc.jpg] [accessed 28 April 2019]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: the ruins of the basilica
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Perez (DPC), 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 October 2012 by David Perez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marialba_de_la_Ribera_06_iglesia_by-dpc.jpg] [accessed 28 April 2019]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Perez (DPC), 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 October 2012 by David Perez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marialba_de_la_Ribera_05_iglesia_by-dpc.jpg] [accessed 28 April 2019]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Schlunk, 1978
Image Source: digital scan of a B&W photograph in Schkunk (1978: pl. 41a)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 08428MAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font3
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Martirial / Basilica paleocristiana
Church Location: Calle el Caño, 33D, 24199 Villaturiel, León, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: León, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the L-5516, on the E bank of the Bernesga river, in the municipality of Villateruel, 7 km S of Leon capital, direction Madrid, near Puente de Castro
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diócesis de León]
Historical Region: Hermandad de La Sobarriba
Font Location in Church: Annex of the nave on the S side
Century and Period: 4th - 6th century, Early Christian
Cognate Fonts: Aljezares
Font Notes:
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Listed in Palol ([1969?]: 35) with an early-Christian baptistery. Illustrated in Schlunk (1978: pl. 41a). Described as a 5th century addition to the original 4th-century nave [source: http://www.antropos.galeon.com/html/visigotica.htm#3]. The well itself is round but the two lateral wings that contain the steps of access make it the rectangular shape common to other such fonts (e.g.: Aljezares).
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.5353, -5.5436
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 32′ 7.08″ N, 5° 32′ 36.96″ W
UTM: 30T 291114 4712348
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: rectangular (sunken)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular
REFERENCES
Fontaine, Jacques, Art pré-roman hispanique, La Pierre-qui-vire, Yonne: Zodiaque, 1973-1977
Palol, Pedro de, Arte paleocristiano en España, Barcelona: Ediciones Polígrafa, [1969?]
Schlunk, Helmut, Die Denkmäler der frühchristlichen und westgotischen Zeit, Mainz am Rhein: P. von Zabern, 1978