Roma No. 24 / Vaticano

Results: 6 records

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B01: animal - mammal - lion - head - with ring in the mouth - 2

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 28, 2007

B02: design element - patterns - ribbed - wavy

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 28, 2007

R01: design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 28, 2007

view of basin - interior

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 28, 2007

view of basin - interior - drain

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 28, 2007

view of font

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 28, 2007

INFORMATION

FontID: 13055ROM

Museum and Inventory Number: Mueso Vaticano

Church/Chapel: [not in a church]

Country Name: Italy

Location: Roma, Lazio

Font Location in Church: [in a museum]

Cognate Fonts: others such in the same museum

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Rectangular sarcophagus probably re-used as shaped baptismal font, as suggested by the drain in the inside, one of several such objects at the Museo Vaticano; there are large lion heads with rings in their mouths at the narrow ends, and a pattern of symmetrically arranged wavy ribbing all around; the upper rim has a flat moulding, while the lower is round moulded.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: tub-shaped (oval)

Basin Interior Shape: oval

Basin Exterior Shape: oval