Madrid No. 5

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Results: 8 records

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B01: design element - motifs - wave

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: drawing from a photograph in Palol (1967)

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

BIB01: animal - fish - 4

Image Source: digital image taken on 5 July 2005 by BSI

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R01: design element - motifs - lozenge - concentric lozenges

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: drawing from a photograph in Palol (1967)

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R02: design element - motifs - interlace

Scene Description: a simple round interlace [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: drawing from a photograph in Palol (1967)

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view of font - upper view

Image Source: digital image taken on 5 July 2005 by BSI

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view of font in context

Scene Description: as displayed in the mseum [MNA]

view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital image taken on 5 July 2005 by BSI

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view of font

Image Source: drawing from a photograph in Palol (1967)

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 11257MAD

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Font Century and Period/Style: 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

Museum: Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid

Font Location in Church: [in a museum]

Previous Font Location(s): from Martos, Jaen province, but may be originally from Toledo

Church Address: [NB: address & coordinates given for the museum] C. de Serrano, 13, Salamanca, 28001 Madrid, Spain -- Tel.: +34 915 77 79 12

Site Location: Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, Spain, Europe

Directions to Site: Martos is located S of Torredonjimeno, WSW of Jaen capital

Additional Comments: fish font / animal font

Font Notes: Click to view

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).

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 441615 4474964

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 40.423259, -3.688256

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 40° 25′ 23.73″ N, 3° 41′ 17.72″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble

Font Shape: rectangular

Basin Interior Shape: rectangular

Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular

Drainage System: no drainage system

REFERENCES

Castillo Maldonado, Pedro, La época visigótica en Jaén (siglos VI y VII), Jaén: Universidad de Jaén, 2006, p. 148-149
Palol, Pedro de, Arqueología cristiana de la España romana: siglos IV a VI, Madrid, Valladolid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Instituto Enrique Flórez, 1967, p. 180-183, fig. 70 and pl. XXI