Constantinople No. 4 / Constantinopolis / Istambul / Istanbul / Kostantiniyye / Kōnstantinoúpolis / Κωνσταντινούπολις / Nova Roma

Image copyright © Holly Hayes, 2007

Image and permission received (email of 18 September 2007)

Results: 3 records

B01: animal - reptile - snake - 2

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Holly Hayes, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph by Holly Hayes in Sacred Destiations [http://www.sacred-destinations.com/turkey/hagia-sophia-photos/narthex-outer-font-cc-Lilbenne.jpg.html] [accessed 18 September 2007]

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CR01: design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Holly Hayes, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph by Holly Hayes in Sacred Destiations [http://www.sacred-destinations.com/turkey/hagia-sophia-photos/narthex-outer-font-cc-Lilbenne.jpg.html] [accessed 18 September 2007]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (email of 18 September 2007)

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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Holly Hayes, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph by Holly Hayes in Sacred Destiations [http://www.sacred-destinations.com/turkey/hagia-sophia-photos/narthex-outer-font-cc-Lilbenne.jpg.html] [accessed 18 September 2007]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (email of 18 September 2007)

INFORMATION

FontID: 13109IST
Church/Chapel: Hagia Sophia
Country Name: Turkey
Location: Istanbul, Istanbul
Historical Region: formerly Constantinople
Font Location in Church: In the outer narthex
Century and Period: , Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Holly Hayes, of Sacred Destiations [http://www.sacred-destinations.com¸, for her photograph of this font
A large chalice-shaped font-like object located in the outer narthex of Hagia Sophia; it has a round basin decorated with a moulding at the upper rim, and with a pair of snakes [?] the bodies of which slither around the basin sides, coiling occasionally, the heads going over the rim and, uncharacteristically in baptismal fonts, leaning into the inner well; there is a large roll moulding where the underbowl meets the round stem of the base, then the stem is conical in shape; the lower section of the base is made of a squat cylidrincal volume with a splaying lower part; raised on a square plinth. [A recent photograph of this object by Holly Hayes is found at the Sacred Destinations web site [http://www.sacred-destinations.com/turkey/hagia-sophia-photos/narthex-outer-font-cc-Lilbenne.jpg.html] [accessed 18 September 2007]. [cf. Index entry for Constantinople No. 5 for a recently [2010] discovered font of the 6th century from Hagia Sophia]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: chalice-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: not lined
Notes on Measurements: [cf. FontNotes]