Roma No. 19 / Vaticano
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design element - patterns - gadrooned or ribbed
Scene Description: all around the underbowl
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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design element - motifs - vine - grape
Scene Description: all around the basin side
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: all around the round upper level of the base
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design element - motifs - panel - 8
Scene Description: four of them have a 8-pointed star in them
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symbol - star - 8-point - 4
Scene Description: in four of the panels of the lower base
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Scene Description: The "Bocca della verita", near the church
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 13049ROM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2007-06-28
Font Century and Period/Style: [altered] [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin, Roma
Font Location in Church: Inside, in the NW chapel used as baptistery
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: 6thC church; re-built 1123; much modified since -- it houses the Bocca della Verità (Mouth of Truth)
Church Address: Piazza della Bocca della Verità, 18, 00186 Roma RM, Italy -- Tel.: +39 06 678 7759
Site Location: Roma, Lazio, Italy, Europe
Directions to Site: Located in Piazza Bocca della Verità, near Tevere, Circo Massimo and Foro Boario, in Rome old city centre
Additional Comments: compositr font / re-purposed vessel [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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The entry for this church in the Italian Wikipedia [https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_di_Santa_Maria_in_Cosmedin] [accessed 21 August 2025]
reports a baptismal font fashioned from Roma expolia by Pope Benedict XIII in the 18th century; it consists of an urn-shaped basin decorated with foliage motifs, on a pedestal base that is probably a modern replacement: "La prima cappella della navata di sinistra è il battistero, edificato nel 1727; al suo interno vi è il fonte battesimale, costituito da un reperto erratico romano decorato a rilievo con tralci di vite e di edera, donato per assolvere a tale funzione da papa Benedetto XIII." For a digital photograph of the font in context taken 5 September 2014 by Ragusaibla in Wikimedia see [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:14_Santa_Maria_in_Cosmedin.PNG] [accessed 21 August 2025], and another showing its cover as well taken 21 August 2024 by Joseolgon, also in Wikimedia [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santa_Maria_in_Cosmedin_(Baptismal_font).jpg] [accessed 21 August 2025] [NB: also in this church is a holy-water stoup, probably of late date -- not listed separately in this Index]
reports a baptismal font fashioned from Roma expolia by Pope Benedict XIII in the 18th century; it consists of an urn-shaped basin decorated with foliage motifs, on a pedestal base that is probably a modern replacement: "La prima cappella della navata di sinistra è il battistero, edificato nel 1727; al suo interno vi è il fonte battesimale, costituito da un reperto erratico romano decorato a rilievo con tralci di vite e di edera, donato per assolvere a tale funzione da papa Benedetto XIII." For a digital photograph of the font in context taken 5 September 2014 by Ragusaibla in Wikimedia see [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:14_Santa_Maria_in_Cosmedin.PNG] [accessed 21 August 2025], and another showing its cover as well taken 21 August 2024 by Joseolgon, also in Wikimedia [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santa_Maria_in_Cosmedin_(Baptismal_font).jpg] [accessed 21 August 2025] [NB: also in this church is a holy-water stoup, probably of late date -- not listed separately in this Index]
COORDINATES
UTM: 33T 291035 4640518
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 41.888984, 12.481268
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 41° 53′ 20.34″ N, 12° 28′ 52.57″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble?
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round