Cerbi No. 2 / Cervi
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Azucena Povill, 2012
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Azucena Povill, 2012
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 2 September 2012 by Azucena Povill
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Azucena Povill, 2012
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 2 September 2012 by Azucena Povill
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Azucena Povill, 2012
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 2 September 2012 by Azucena Povill
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montserrat Estela, 2008
Image Source: Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]
Copyright Instructions: Image and Permission received (e-mail of 19 July 2004)
INFORMATION
FontID: 09882CER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Església parroquial de Sant Serni [aka Sant Sadurní]
Church Patron Saints: St. Saturninus of Toulouse [aka Saturnin, Sernin, Sirnin]
Church Location: Placeta de l'Església, Cervi / Cervi, La Guingueta d'Àneu, Lérida / Lleida, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Lérida / Lleida, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of La Guingueta d'Aneu, in the Pallars Sobirà (follow the C-127 N for 3 km to Esterri; there, turn right on a road that leads to Unarre; past Unarre, at the forking of the road, follow the left to Cerbi
Historical Region: Pallars Sobirà
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, behind the main font, by the wall
Century and Period: 11th - 15th century, Medieval
Workshop/Group/Artisan: oil font / pica d'oli
Cognate Fonts: Several such, decorated and plain, in this area of the Pyrenees
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Montserrat Estela, of www.romanicat.net, for the photograph of this object
Font Notes:
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Roughly rectangular object, with one side slightly pointed, as it is common in this type of "oil font" [=pica d'oli] of the Catalan Pyrenees. This one is totally plain, with the rather narrow opening of the well at the top and an old wooden cover [cf. entry for Barcelona No. 6, for instance, for an example of a decorated one with a large opening -- note that both the date and the purpose of these 'fonts' are a contentious issue yet to be satisfactorily resolved]. Cabestany, Matas & Palau (2005) suggest a medieval date [cf. Index entries for Cerbi Nos. 1 and 3 for two other objects listed for this church]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.647, 1.1495
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 38′ 49.2″ N, 1° 8′ 58.2″ E
UTM: 31T 348306 4723276
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: rectangular (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular
LID INFORMATION
Date: unknown
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Cabestany i Fort, Joan-F., El romànic de la vall d'Àneu, Barcelona: Institut d'Estudis Catalans, 2005