Pomposa No. 2

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.