Madrid No. 9
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Results: 13 records
symbol - cross - Greek
Scene Description: in a field of interlace
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design element - motifs - curl
Scene Description: a band of, at the top
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symbol - sun - sun wheel
Scene Description: on the left spandrel
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design element - motifs - braid
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design element - motifs - floral - flower
Scene Description: on the right spandrel
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design element - motifs - foliage scroll - roundel
Scene Description: a band of, framing the arch
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design element - motifs - floral or foliage
Scene Description: on the capitals of the supporting columns
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inscription
Scene Description: running across the top
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animal - bird - peacock - 2 - facing each other
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design element - motifs - cartouche
Scene Description: between the two peacocks
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design element - motifs - interlace
Scene Description: a band of, framing the arch
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view of font canopy, baldachin - canopy
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view of font canopy, baldachin - canopy
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11261MAD
Object Type: Other
Object Details: ciborium
Font Century and Period/Style: 5th - 8th century, Visigothic
Museum: Museo Arqueológico Nacional (Madrid, Spain)
Church / Chapel Name: [origin unknown]
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
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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The collections of the Museo Arqueológico Nacional of Madrid, Spain, include a ciborium of the Visigothic period; this structure may have been installed over a sunken baptismal font; the square top has a round arch on each side and rests on four round columns with plain bases and decorated capitals; each of the arches of the upper volume is underlined by a decorative band of scroll or interlace pattern; the ornamentation of the spandrel areas above these bands varies, and includes a Greek cross, a pair of facing peacocks with a small blank cartouche between them, floral motifs, tetrafoils, a sun-disk and an inscription. The capitals of the four supporting columns have leaf and floral decoration.
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, sandstone?