Roma No. 25 / Vaticano

INFORMATION

Font ID: 13056ROM
Object Type: Stoup?
Date Visited: 2007-06-27
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th - 18th century
Museum: Museo Vaticano
Church / Chapel Name: [not in a church]
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Site Location: Roma, Lazio, Italy, Europe
Directions to Site: Located in the Vatican city, just S of the Viale Vaticano
Font Notes:
an object consisting of a shallow round basin of sleek design decorated with a protruding rim which has a pattern of ball-in-socket motif, then a pronounced scotia, and an underbowl with a ribbed pattern; by contrast the base is made up of two bearded kneeling atlantes carrying large sacks on their bascks; the basin rests on the sacks, not the atlantes' backs. Possibly a holy-water stoup?

COORDINATES

UTM: 33T 288867 4642516
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 41.906389, 12.454444
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 41° 54′ 23″ N, 12° 27′ 16″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round