Ager / Sant Vincenc d'Ager / Sant Vincenç d'Ager
Results: 2 records
B-2: animal - fabulous animal or monster
Scene Description: on the side
B01: mythical being - god - Neptune?
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
INFORMATION
FontID: 09454AGE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Església Parroquial [earlier at the Collegiata de Sant Pere]
Country Name: Spain
Location: Lérida / Lleida, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Located on the L904, 6 km W of the C147, about 25 km SSW of Tremp
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 2nd - 3rd century (?) [modified / re-cycled], Roman
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Fité Llevot (2007) as a baptismal font made from a former Roman sarcophagus of the 3rd century; the rectabgular object is made of marble from the Greek island of Paros; it is profusely decorated with a marine 'thiasos' scene, probably of the 2nd or 3rd century A.D.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: rectangular (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: rectangular
Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular
REFERENCES
Fité Llevot, Francesc, "El sarcòfag romà de la parròquia de Sant Vicenç d'Ager (La Noguera): història i vicissituds", 21 (agost-setembre 2007), Taüll, 2007, pp. 14-17; p.