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INFORMATION

Font ID: 12378GUA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 6th - 7th century, Visigothic
Cognate Fonts: The font originally from Santisteban del Puerto [cf. Index entry for Madrid No. 2]
Museum: Museo Arqueologico Provincial de Jaen (Jaen, Spain)
Church / Chapel Name: [original church unknown]
Font Location in Church: in a museum
Church Address: [NB: address & coordinates given for the archeaological site] La Guardia de Jaén, Jaén, Spain
Site Location: Jaen, Andalucía, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: the archaeological site is located 10 km SE of the city of Jaén, between the Cerro or Peñas de San Cristóbal and the Dehesa Boyal de la Sierrezuela de Pegalajar
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].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30S 438873 4177730

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

  • Castillo Maldonado, Pedro, La época visigótica en Jaén (siglos VI y VII), Jaén: Universidad de Jaén, 2006, p. 155