Basaran / Basarán

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design element - motifs - groove - 3

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Antonio García Omedes (2005) [www.romanicoaragones.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (18 January 2007)

symbol - chrismon

Scene Description: in the centre of the left side of the font [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph by Antonio García Omedes (2005) [www.romanicoaragones.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (18 January 2007)

symbol - chrismon

Scene Description: in the centre of the front side of the font [notice the large cut made for the cover lock]

Image Source: digital photograph by Antonio García Omedes (2005) [www.romanicoaragones.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (18 January 2007)

symbol - cross

Scene Description: on the right side of the basin [cf. Font notes]

symbol - cross - Latin

Scene Description: in the upper right corner of the left side of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph by Antonio García Omedes (2005) [www.romanicoaragones.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (18 January 2007)

view of basin - front side

Image Source: digital photograph by Antonio García Omedes (2005) [www.romanicoaragones.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (18 January 2007)

view of basin - left side

Image Source: digital photograph by Antonio García Omedes (2005) [www.romanicoaragones.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (18 January 2007)

view of church exterior - east view

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2018 by Jaime Zabalozuazola Alustiza

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 December 2019)

view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2018 by Jaime Zabalozuazola Alustiza

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 December 2019)

view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2018 by Jaime Zabalozuazola Alustiza

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 December 2019)

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2018 by Jaime Zabalozuazola Alustiza

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 December 2019)

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: view of the ruins of the monastery of San Juan de Maltray, Ruesta, in 2005 -- this is the original church where the font came from

Image Source: digital photograph by Antonio García Omedes (2005) [www.romanicoaragones.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (18 January 2007)

view of church interior - looking southeast

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2018 by Jaime Zabalozuazola Alustiza

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 December 2019)

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2018 by Jaime Zabalozuazola Alustiza

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 December 2019)

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: view of the ruins of the monastery of San Juan de Maltray, Ruesta, in 2005 -- this is the original church where the font came from

Image Source: digital photograph by Antonio García Omedes (2005) [www.romanicoaragones.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (18 January 2007)

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: view of the ruins of the monastery of San Juan de Maltray, Ruesta, in 2005 -- this is the original church where the font came from

Image Source: digital photograph by Antonio García Omedes (2005) [www.romanicoaragones.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (18 January 2007)

view of church interior - north aisle - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2018 by Jaime Zabalozuazola Alustiza

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 December 2019)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph by Antonio García Omedes (2005) [www.romanicoaragones.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (18 January 2007)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph by Antonio García Omedes (2005) [www.romanicoaragones.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (18 January 2007)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2018 by Jaime Zabalozuazola Alustiza

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 December 2019)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2018 by Jaime Zabalozuazola Alustiza

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 December 2019)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2018 by Jaime Zabalozuazola Alustiza

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 December 2019)

view of object

Scene Description: notice the similarity of this object with the font inside, except for the carvings on the sides; was this ever a font? [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph by Antonio García Omedes (2005) [www.romanicoaragones.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (18 January 2007)

view of object

Scene Description: notice the similarity of this object with the font inside, except for the carvings on the sides; was this ever a font? [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2018 by Jaime Zabalozuazola Alustiza

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 December 2019)

view of stoup

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2018 by Jaime Zabalozuazola Alustiza

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 December 2019)

INFORMATION

FontID: 12549BAS

Church/Chapel: Iglesia abacial de los Santos Urbez y Miguel

Church Patron Saints: St. Urbez & St. Michael

Church Location: [NB: UTM value corresponds to the original location in the monastery at Ruesta]

Country Name: Spain

Location: Huesca, Aragón

Directions to Site: This church was originally in the Sobrepuerto area, but was later [ca. 1972] moved and re-built in the ski-station of El Formigal, in the Tena valley

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Barbastro

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Antonio García Omedes, of www.romanicoaragones.com, and to Jaime Zabalozuazola Alustiza for their photographs of this church, font and object

Church Notes: The church is described in several sources as Mozarabic of the 10th or 11th century -- the church was dismantled from its original site in Basarán, and reconstructed in Formigal

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in the corresponding entry in García Omedes (2005) [www.romanicoaragones.com] [accessed 18 January 2007]: rectangular font, with triple groove all along the upper rim surface; three of the sides are decorated, two of them, the front and left, bear large chrismons; the left side bears also a smaller Latin cross on the upper right corner; the right side of the basin bears an incised cross. As with many Pyrinean fonts on both sides of the border, the large indentation cut into the front panel -without regard to the beautiful chrismon thus destroyed!- was made at a later date to fit the cover locking hardware. The chrismons on this font are catalogued as of the Visigothic type [="de aspecto visigótico [...] Trinitario simple"] in www.claustro.com with date in the early 12th century. There is a second vessel, almost identical in shape to this font serving as planter outside the church; it has no motifs or symbols visible on its sides, but it does have the cut in the front(?) panel. [NB: could it be that this font was damaged during the early stages and discarded? The presence of the cut in the rim would argue against this idea, though]. There is also a wall-mounted stoup in this church, a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with a rope moulding at the upper rim, a row of ball motifs below and a pattern of arcade-like ribbing below; appears late-medieval.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 657711 4718107

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: rectangular (unmounted)

Basin Interior Shape: rectangular

Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular

Drainage Notes: not lined

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: initials

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: in the chrismons of the sides

Inscription Text: [alpha - rho - omega - sigma]

Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Torralba, José Manuel, "El misterio de las iglesias del Gállego", 3( diciembre 2006, Románico: revista de arte de Amigos del Románico, 2006, pp. 28-35; r["References"]