Pomposa No. 2

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design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding

Image Source: digital photograph 30 April 2016 by Sailko [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pomposa,_abbazia,_interno,_acquasantiera_romanica_del_xii_secolo_02.jpg] [accessed 15 October 2021]

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human figure - kneeling - 3

Scene Description: it looks like the fourth one is missing / broken off

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view of stoup - east side

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view of stoup - northwest side

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view of stoup in context - west side

Image Source: digital photograph 23 September 2021 by Angeles Leal Arroyo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission from the author received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 14 October 2021)

view of stoup in context - west side

Image Source: digital photograph 23 September 2021 by Angeles Leal Arroyo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission from the author received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 14 October 2021)

INFORMATION

FontID: 12524POM

Church/Chapel: Chiesa abbaziale, Abbazia di Santa Maria di Pomposa

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Via Pomposa Centro, 12, 44021 Codigoro FE, Italy -- Tel.: +39 0533 719119

Country Name: Italy

Location: Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the SS309-SP54 crossroads, 5 km E of Codigoro, 45-50 lm E of Ferrara

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave

Century and Period: 12th century [composite stoup], Medieval / composite

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Angeles Leal Arroyo for her phototographs of this object

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Noted in Barasch (1971) [with photograph by Eva Baer] in relation to the stoups at Acre, Torcello, Borgo San Donnino, Soleto, etc. Illustrated in the Istituto Regionale di Ricerca Educativa web site [www.irreer.it/boscomesola/testi/acquasantiera2.html] [accessed 13 January 2007]; this source shows the stoup in the centre aisle, north side, of the abbey church. The stoup appears to be made of two originally unrelated parts: a roughly hemispherical basin of whitish marble decorated with three kneeling figures, the fourth missing, probably broke off; stands on a broad cylindrical column that has some damage to the upper end; the basin is secured to the base with iron clamps [cf. Index entry for Pomposa No. 1 for a Byzantine capital converted into holy-water stoup also in this church] [NB: several sources refer to this object as baptismal font]. There is another stoup that may share some characteristics with this one at the Basilica di Santa Maria Assunta in Torcello.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 44.832222, 12.175278

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 44° 49′ 56″ N, 12° 10′ 31″ E

UTM: 33T 276719 4968195

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble

Font Shape: hemispheric (with figures) (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round (with figures)

REFERENCES

Barasch, Moshe, Crusader figural sculpture in the Holy Land: twelfth century examples from Acre, Nazareth and Belvoir Castle, Ramat Gan: Massada Press, 1971