Rohr in Niederbayern

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B01: design element - motifs - rope moulding - 2

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B02: design element - motifs - quatrefoil

Scene Description: secant circles that make qatrefoil patterns

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BBU01: inscription

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BU01: design element - motifs - circle

Scene Description: a row

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CR01: design element - motifs - rope moulding

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view of font

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view of font in context

Scene Description: The wall-mounted shelf with the representation of the Baptism of Christ is just above and behind the font

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INFORMATION

FontID: 08892ROH
Church/Chapel: Pfarrkirche Maria Himmelfahrt
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary
Country Name: Germany
Location: Niederbayern, Bayern
Directions to Site: Located off (W) of highway 93, 30-35 km SSW of Regensburg
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Romanesque
Baptismal font dated in Dehio (1991) to the 13th century. It consists of a hemispherical basin mounted on a pedestal base. The upper side of the basin bears a Latin inscription all around; sandwiched between two rope motifs are a series of incised secant circles that make up quatrefoil motifs all around; the underbowl is decorated with a row of circular motifs. The base appears plain except for a rope motif around its middle. [We are grateful to E.J. Erpelinck, of Sas van Gent, The Netherlands, for the information on and image of this font]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted) -- chalice shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Location: around the upper basin side
Inscription Text: [partial text only: "[...]MISTERBMERSIOTRIN[?] + D[...]]
Inscription Source: [cf. Image area]

LID INFORMATION

Date: unknown
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: plain wooden lid with metal reinforcements

REFERENCES

Dehio, George, Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler: Bayern V: Regensburg und die Oberpfalz, 1991