Meoz No. 2 / Meaotz / Meauz
Results: 3 records
design element - motifs - handle
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
human figure - head
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
view of stoup in context
INFORMATION
FontID: 13688MEO
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Poarroquial de San Pedro
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: 31481 Meoz, Navarra, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra
Directions to Site: Located on the NA2414,in the valley and municipality of Lónguida, Merindad de Sangüesa, 44 km from Pamplona
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesis de Pamplona
Historical Region: Merindad de Sangüesa -- Cuenca de Lumbier-Aoiz
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, just E of the entranceway
Century and Period: Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue for his photographs of this stoup
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico en Navarra (2008) as a stoup of curious design [=tiene una tipología realmente curiosa], consisting of a roughly hemispheric basin with a single constructional handle at one angle, the other angles sporting human heads; raised on a cylindrical pedestal base and a quadrangular lower base [NB: Bond (1908) warns against accepting some of these objects as bona fide stoups. The Enciclopedia (ibid.) notes that it resembles the wooden 'kaiku' cheese-making vessels of the area. This shape is found commonly as medieval grain measures and mortars, and Bond (ibid.) illustrates several of them in his book. The knobby protrusions, however, appear to be human heads, which do not usually decorate domestic vessels of the time.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: hemispheric (with heads) (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round (with heads)
REFERENCES
Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico en Navarra, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, Centro de Estudios del Románico, 2008