Ustarroz / Ustárroz
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BBU01: design element - motifs - ball
Scene Description: a row of, each ball in the groove between ribs
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003
Image Source: Photograph [ca. 1943], Institución Príncipe de Viana, Archivo Uranga
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)
BU01: design element - motifs - ball
Scene Description: a row of, each ball in the groove between ribs, right at the bottom of the underbowl
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003
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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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003
Image Source: Photograph [ca. 1943], Institución Príncipe de Viana, Archivo Uranga
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)
INFORMATION
FontID: 08519UST
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Bartolomé
Church Patron Saints: St. Bartholomew
Country Name: Spain
Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality and valley of Egüés, Merindad de Sangüesa
Font Location in Church: Under the choir
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?-, vol. IV*: 244 and fig. 245); described in Domeño (1992: 181); medieval baptismal font consisting of a hemispherical basin ornamented with a diagonal pattern of thick ribs all around and, at the upper basin side, between the ribs, a ball motif in each groove, a motif repeated at the bottom of the underbowl; cylindrical pedestal base; square plinth. An image frmo the ca. 1943 Archivo Uranga shows the basin covered with a plain flat wooden lid. [We are grateful to the Institución Príncipe de Viana, of Pamplona, Spain, for the image of this font from the Archivo Uranga]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round (scalloped a/p the ribbed pattern)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and plain, as shown in the ca. 1943 image
REFERENCES
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?]