Madrid No. 5
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Results: 8 records
B01: design element - motifs - wave
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/others/permission_not_available.jpg)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Palol, 1967
Image Source: drawing from a photograph in Palol (1967)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
BIB01: animal - fish - 4
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image taken on 5 July 2005 by BSI
R01: design element - motifs - lozenge - concentric lozenges
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Palol, 1967
Image Source: drawing from a photograph in Palol (1967)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
R02: design element - motifs - interlace
Scene Description: a simple round interlace [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Palol, 1967
Image Source: drawing from a photograph in Palol (1967)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of basin - interior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image taken on 5 July 2005 by BSI
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Palol, 1967
Image Source: drawing from a photograph in Palol (1967)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of font - upper view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image taken on 5 July 2005 by BSI
view of font in context
![as displayed in the mseum [MNA]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1051118013_compressed.png)
Scene Description: as displayed in the mseum [MNA]
INFORMATION
FontID: 11257MAD
Object Type: Baptismal Font?
Museum and Inventory Number: Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid
Church/Chapel: [origininally from Martos, Jaen province, but may be originally from Toledo]
Country Name: Spain
Location: Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid
Directions to Site: Martos is located S of Torredonjimeno, WSW of Jaen capital
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Century and Period: 6th - 8th century, Visigothic
Cognate Fonts: another such font at the MAN [Index entry for Madrid No. 2], and a few other fonts/stoups, in France mostly, with aquatic animals decorating the inner well
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Palol (1967) in comparison to the Visigothic font from Satisteban del Puerto [cf. Index entry for Madrid No. 2], with which it shares the decoration with fish symbols on the bottom of the inner well [NB: four fish in Martos, whereas Santisteban del Puerto has only two]
Like the font (?) listed in this Index for Madrid No. 2, this object is a shallow rectangular vessel, probably of the Visigothic period, that may -or may not- have had a baptism-related function. Like the aforementioned object, this one has an arrangement of fishes in the rectangular basin well, in this case four fish in left and right-facing alternate arrangement. [NB: Martos, originally 'Tucci', was an episcopal see in Visigothic times]. Noted in Castillo Maldonado (2006).
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble
Font Shape: rectangular
Basin Interior Shape: rectangular
Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular
REFERENCES
Castillo Maldonado, Pedro, La época visigótica en Jaén (siglos VI y VII), Jaén: Universidad de Jaén, 2006
Palol, Pedro de, Arqueología cristiana de la España romana: siglos IV a VI, Madrid, Valladolid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Instituto Enrique Flórez, 1967