Madrid No. 7
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Results: 10 records
B01: inscription
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Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005
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B02: design element - architectural - arcade - trefoiled arches - Arabic arches - 3
Scene Description: on the front side of the font
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B03: design element - motifs - plant - 3
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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B04: design element - patterns - geometric
Scene Description: details on parts of the front panel
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B05: animal
![some winged; on one of the narrow sides of the rectangular basin [cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1051118032_compressed.png)
Scene Description: some winged; on one of the narrow sides of the rectangular basin [cf. Font notes]
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B06: animal
![some winged; on the second of the narrow sides of the rectangular basin [cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1051118029_compressed.png)
Scene Description: some winged; on the second of the narrow sides of the rectangular basin [cf. Font notes]
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BS01: design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: in the spandrels of the arcade
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view of font
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view of font - upper view
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information
Scene Description: museum label noting Spanish translation of the Arabic inscription and date
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11259MAD
Object Type: Other
Object Details: Ablutions Font, Islamic vessel
Font Date: 987-988 AD
Font Century and Period/Style: 10th century (late?), Caliphal
Museum: Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid, N. inv. 50.40[?]
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Previous Font Location(s): originally from Medina Azhara, Cordoba
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
Font Notes:
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Rectangular vessel identified as an ablutions font originally from the Medina Azhara, Cordoba, now in the collections of the Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid. The museum label notes ornamentation on three of the sides related to symbolism of power, wealth and eternity, as well as an inscription in Kufic characters which names the sponsor "Almanzor Abi Amir Muhammad ben Abi Amir" and the Hegira date of 377 [987-988 A.D.] It is a beautiful object, not unlike some of the early Spanish baptimal fonts in overall shape [cf. for instance the early font at Leon No. 2]
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, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: rectangular
Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Arabic
Inscription Location: on the front side of the basin
Inscription Text: ["...Almanzor Ibi Amir Muhammad ben Abi Amir and may Allah bestow prosperity upon him. He had this made for the fortress of Al-Zahira, and it was finished with the help of Allah and his good will under the direction of the great emir, on the year seven, seventy and three hundred"]
Inscription Notes: Our translation of the Spanish version as given on the museum label [cf. Image area]
Inscription Source: [cf. photograph of museum label in the Image area]