Guardia / La Guardia
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B01: symbol - chrismon
Scene Description: [cf. FiontNotes]
INFORMATION
FontID: 12378GUA
Museum and Inventory Number: Museo Arqueologico Provincial de Jaen (Jaen, Spain)
Church/Chapel: [original church unknown]
Country Name: Spain
Location: Jaen, Andalucía
Font Location in Church: in a museum
Century and Period: 6th - 7th century, Visigothic
Cognate Fonts: The font originally from Santisteban del Puerto [cf. Index entry for Madrid No. 2]
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Castillo Maldonado (2006) notes a Visigothic baptismal font decorated with a chrismon (?) flanked by inscribed vases on either side. It was found in the archaeological site of La Guardia, in the province of Jaen, and appears to be now at the Museo Arqueologico Provincial de Jaen. [NB: we have not been able to corroborate this information yet, but there is a similar font, originally from Santiesteban del Puerto, also in the province of Jaen, in the Museo Arqueologogico Nacional, in Madrid [cf. Index entry for Madrid No. 2].
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
REFERENCES
Castillo Maldonado, Pedro, La época visigótica en Jaén (siglos VI y VII), Jaén: Universidad de Jaén, 2006