Madrid No. 7

Results: 10 records

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B01: inscription

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

B02: design element - architectural - arcade - trefoiled arches - Arabic arches - 3

Scene Description: on the front side of the font

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

B03: design element - motifs - plant - 3

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

B04: design element - patterns - geometric

Scene Description: details on parts of the front panel

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

B05: animal

Scene Description: some winged; on one of the narrow sides of the rectangular basin [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

B06: animal

Scene Description: some winged; on the second of the narrow sides of the rectangular basin [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

BS01: design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: in the spandrels of the arcade

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

information

Scene Description: museum label noting Spanish translation of the Arabic inscription and date

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

view of font

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

view of font - upper view

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

INFORMATION

FontID: 11259MAD

Museum and Inventory Number: Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid

Church/Chapel: Originally from Medina Azhara, Cordoba

Country Name: Spain

Location: Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid

Font Location in Church: [in a museum]

Date: 987-988 AD

Century and Period: 10th century (late?), Caliphal

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble

Font Shape: rectangular (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: rectangular

Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Arabic

Inscription Notes: Our translation of the Spanish version as given on the museum label [cf. Image area]

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 Source: [cf. photograph of museum label in the Image area]