Madrid No. 9

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Results: 13 records

animal - bird - peacock - 2 - facing each other

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design element - motifs - braid

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design element - motifs - cartouche

Scene Description: between the two peacocks

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design element - motifs - curl

Scene Description: a band of, at the top

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design element - motifs - floral - flower

Scene Description: on the right spandrel

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design element - motifs - floral or foliage

Scene Description: on the capitals of the supporting columns

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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 - interlace

Scene Description: a band of, framing the arch

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inscription

Scene Description: running across the top

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symbol - cross - Greek

Scene Description: in a field of interlace

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symbol - sun - sun wheel

Scene Description: on the left spandrel

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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

FontID: 11261MAD
Museum and Inventory Number: Museo Arqueológico Nacional (Madrid, Spain)
Church/Chapel: [in a museum -- origin unknown]
Country Name: Spain
Location: Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Century and Period: 5th - 8th century, Visigothic
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.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone?