Calenzana

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Results: 5 records

BBU01: inscription - partial - left side

Scene Description: [cf. Inscription area]

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BBU02: inscription - partial - right side

Scene Description: [cf. Inscription area]

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BF01: Christ - standing - haloed - bearded - with processional cross in left hand - right hand raised to his middle

Scene Description: his body faces right, his face looks straight out

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BU01: human figure - hand - left hand

Scene Description: carved as if holding up the basin

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view of stoup and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 08663CAL
Church/Chapel: Eglise Sainte-Restitude
Church Patron Saints: St. Restitute of Africa [aka Restituta]
Country Name: France
Location: Haute-Corse, Corsica / Corse
Directions to Site: The town is located on the D151, 12 km ESE of Calvi (the church is located just NE of the town, following the D151 in the direction of Zilia)
Font Location in Church: wall-mounted
Date: December 14, 14[??]
Century and Period: 15th century, Late Medieval
Beautiful wall-mounted hemispherical holy-water stoup made of whitish marble and dated by an inscription to the 15th century; the front of the basin is ornamented with a standing image of Christ, nimbed and holding a processional cross in the left hand, the right held to his middle; the body faces right but the head stares straight out. The basin upper side bears an inscription that dates the object to 14[??] and gives the name of the donor or maker, one Franciscus Baldesa[?]. The underbowl is ornamented with a human hand, the left, fingers to the front, which appears to hold up the basin. The stoup has a modern wooden cover on it. [We are grateful to Montserrat Estela, of Barcelona, Spain, for the images of this stoup]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marbke (white)
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: hemispheric (wall-mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Notes: the characters after the second "14" do not appear to complete the date
Inscription Location: around the upper basin side
Inscription Text: "[?] 14 DIC 14 [otoB?] HOC OPUS / FECIT FZANCISC[us] BALDESA[?] [?]"
Inscription Source: transcribed from available images

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and plain