Meoz No. 2 / Meaotz / Meauz

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.