Navasa / Nabasa

Noted in García Guatas (2006) as a medieval rectangular font decorated with two snakes at the upper corners. Described and illustrated in Antonio García Omedes' entry for Navasa's church [www.romanicoaragones.com/0-Jacetania/74-Navasa.htm] [accessed 25 June 2020]: "A los pies del templo hay coro alto de madera [...] y bajo el mismo, a su lado sur se ha reubicado la pila bautismal rectangular que durante mucho tiempo cumplió funciones de abrevadero en la plaza sita a poniente del templo. Todavía pueden verse los dos orificios en altura donde se hallaban los caños [...] Luce en las esquinas decoración de sogueado. [...] La decoración de la pila bautismal muestra en los ángulos anteriores de la misma sendos sogueados. Examinados con atención muestran en su porción superior unas cabecitas a modo de "glouton" de las que surge el sogueado al que parecen devorar". The font, perhaps of the Romanesque period, is shaped like a large rectangular vat, slightly narrower at the bottom; the only apparent ornamentation are simple vertical rope [or snake] motifs at the angles, with at least one monstruous head clearly discernible in it. It is now raised on four short legs but it is not clear whether or not that would have been the original base. The back side, by the wall, shows two large notches at the upper rim; these are consistent with the location of staples or hinges por a possible cover. This font was used as a water-trough outside the church until recently.