Texupan in Teposcolula / Santa Catarina Texupan / Santa Catalina Texupa
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Scene Description: the drawing may or may not be representative of the actual font -- the image corresponds to the entry in the account ledger for repairs to the font [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jaime Lara, 2008
Image Source: illustration in Lara (2008)
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Scene Description: the page of CODEX SIERRA, the account ledger [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jaime Lara, 2008
Image Source: detail of a illustration in Lara (2008)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 13799TEX
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century(mid?), Baroque
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia de Santa Catarina Texupan(?) [not located]
Font Location in Church: unknown
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Catherine of Alexandria [aka Katherine, Katharine]
Site Location: Oaxaca, Mexico, North America
Directions to Site: [not located but said to have been in the municipality of Teposcolula, Mixteca Baja area]
Font Notes:
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Lara (2008) reproduces a page of the Codex Sierra, an account ledger of the parish of Santa Catarina Texupan for the year 1558, containing an "outlay for the carpenter from Mexico City, who repaired the baptismal font". The ledger shows a drawing/painting of the [a?] baptismal font, a traditional design consisting of a plain he,ispheric basin raised on a plain circular pedestal base, and a foliated lower basee appears to be a plain round wooden cover. It is not clear what the carpenter's work was. The text of the ledger appears to be Nahuatl.
COORDINATES
UTM: 14Q 668053 1941101
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Lara, Jaime, Christian texts for Aztecs: art and liturgy in Colonial Mexico, Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008, fig. 4.6