Madrid No. 6
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Results: 7 records
B01: animal - bird - owl?
Scene Description: on the left corner
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Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005
B02: design element - architectural - arch - round arch
Scene Description: arches or windows
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Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005
B03: symbol - plant - Tree of life?
Scene Description: plants? trees-of-life?
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Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005
B04: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: several parallel mouldings above the arches
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Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005
view of object - upper view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005
view of object - upper view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005
view of object in context
INFORMATION
FontID: 11258MAD
Object Type: Stoup (fragment)?
Museum and Inventory Number: Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid
Church/Chapel: [origin unknown]
Country Name: Spain
Location: Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Century and Period: 6th - 8th century, Visigothic
Font Notes:
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Like the fonts (?) listed in this Index for Madrid No. 2 and No. 5, this object may be from the Visigothic period, and may -or may not- have had a baptism-related function. It appears to have been originally a capital, and perhaps hollowed out to serve as holy-water stoup; one of the surviving corners of the capital appears decorated with an owl, the rest covered with foliage or plant motif some of which are inscribed in round arches.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: fragment
Font Shape: capital-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round?
Basin Exterior Shape: capital-shaped