Madrid No. 6

Results: 7 records

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B01: animal - bird - owl?

Scene Description: on the left corner

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

B02: design element - architectural - arch - round arch

Scene Description: arches or windows

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

B03: symbol - plant - Tree of life?

Scene Description: plants? trees-of-life?

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

B04: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: several parallel mouldings above the arches

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

view of object - upper view

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

view of object - upper view

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

view of object in context

INFORMATION

FontID: 11258MAD

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: Click to view font notes

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