Roma No. 21 / Vaticano

Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023

Results: 10 records

B01: animal - mammal - lion - head

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 28, 2007

B02: animal - mammal - lion - head

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 28, 2007

B03: design element - motifs - ring handle - 2

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 28, 2007

B04: design element - motifs - leaf or heart?

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 28, 2007

B05: head - grotesque or fantastic

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 28, 2007

R01: design element - motifs - moulding

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 28, 2007

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: the little drain-hole visible on the left hand side, at the bottom

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 28, 2007

view of font - front side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 28, 2007

view of font - side 1

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 28, 2007

view of font - side 2

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 28, 2007

INFORMATION

FontID: 13052ROM
Museum and Inventory Number: Museo Vaticano
Church/Chapel: [not in a church]
Country Name: Italy
Location: Roma, Lazio
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Bath-tub shaped baptismal font (?) raised on a modern base; pronounced rib at upper end; the two long sides are decorated: on one is a pair of ring-handle like motifs with a heart-shaped leaf inside; on the opposite side are a pair of lion heads on the upper side, and a devil-like head in the centre-bottom, which appears to include the drain [cf. Index entry for Rome No. 21 for a similar object in the same museum]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped (oval)
Basin Interior Shape: oval
Basin Exterior Shape: oval
Drainage Notes: [cf. FontNotes]