Mainz No. 2 / Maguntia / Mayence
Image copyright © Geert Verbrugghe, 2017
Image and permission received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 19 December 2021)
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inscription - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Geert Verbrugghe, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 16 September 2017 by Geert Verbrugghe
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 19 December 2021)
information
Scene Description: museum label
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Geert Verbrugghe, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 16 September 2017 by Geert Verbrugghe
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 19 December 2021)
view of basin
Scene Description: earlier the basin had been displayed on a cylindrical base [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Geert Verbrugghe, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 16 September 2017 by Geert Verbrugghe
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 19 December 2021)
view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Genevra Kornbluth, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph 3 November 2010 by Genevra Kornbluth
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
inscription - partial
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Genevra Kornbluth, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph 3 November 2010 by Genevra Kornbluth
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
inscription - partial
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Genevra Kornbluth, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph 3 November 2010 by Genevra Kornbluth
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15890MAI
Object Type: Stoup?
Font Century and Period/Style: 9th - 10th century, Carolingian
Museum: Landesmuseum Mainz (Grosse Bleiche, 49 -- Mainz) [http://www.landesmuseum-mainz.de/enid/2], LMM S3116
Church / Chapel Name: [original church unknown]
Font Location in Church: In a museum [cf. FontNotes]
Church Address: [NB: address & coordinates given for the museum] Große Bleiche 49-51, 55116 Mainz, Germany
Founded: 1937 -- Tel: +49 6131 28570
Site Location: Rheinhessen-Pfalz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located in the Altstadt, off road 40 and the Kaiserstrasse loop
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Mainz
Additional Comments: disused stoup: in a museum -- e-mail the museum (29 December 2023) asking for more info+pics; reply rec'd: images are chargeable @ 80 euro -- we declined
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Schulze-Dörrlamm (2009): holy-water stoup, probably of the 9th-10th century, made of marble; a round basin on a cylindrical pedestal base; the basin has a Latin inscription around the upper side [cf. Inscription area]. [NB: the stoup was displayed in the musem without the base on 16 September 2017]. Described and illustrated in Romina Schiavone' Weihwasserbecken mit Inschrift in the Museum Katalog [20240122120650.pdf] p.99: first written about in a scientific publication in 1894, believed to be originally from Mainz, and part of the collection of the Christlichen Kunstvereins im Dom until 1970.1875, where it is thought it stood on a slender pedestal base to match the bottom area of the stoup.
as being; Schiavone's text gives the following references: Arensigs8; Glanz derspäten Karolinger 2013, Nr. 48, S. 17g f. (Mechthild Schulze-Dörrlamm); Kraus 1894, S. 115, Nr. 246; Neeb ig34, S.75; Schulze-Dörrlamm 2009, S.2öf. BSI received confirmation from the Museum (e-mail of 2 January 2024 from Dr. Birgit Heide, Direktorin, Direktion Landesmuseum Mainz): "The inscription of the holy-water font is somewhat damaged and dates from the 9./10.th century. It is to be read: + GERO ET POPVLO XPIANO [AQU]M BENEDICTAM [FERAM or OFFERAM] (from Prof. Dr. Tino Licht). You will find further information in the catalogue: „Die Kaiser und die Säulen ihrer Macht. Von Karl dem Großen bis Friedrich Barbarossa (2020) p. 99 No. I.10“.
as being; Schiavone's text gives the following references: Arensigs8; Glanz derspäten Karolinger 2013, Nr. 48, S. 17g f. (Mechthild Schulze-Dörrlamm); Kraus 1894, S. 115, Nr. 246; Neeb ig34, S.75; Schulze-Dörrlamm 2009, S.2öf. BSI received confirmation from the Museum (e-mail of 2 January 2024 from Dr. Birgit Heide, Direktorin, Direktion Landesmuseum Mainz): "The inscription of the holy-water font is somewhat damaged and dates from the 9./10.th century. It is to be read: + GERO ET POPVLO XPIANO [AQU]M BENEDICTAM [FERAM or OFFERAM] (from Prof. Dr. Tino Licht). You will find further information in the catalogue: „Die Kaiser und die Säulen ihrer Macht. Von Karl dem Großen bis Friedrich Barbarossa (2020) p. 99 No. I.10“.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Geert Verbrugghe for his photographs of this stoup. We are also grateful to Dr. Birgit Heide, Direktorin, Direktion Landesmuseum Mainz, for her help in documenting this stoup
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 447528 5539320
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.003889, 8.267778
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 0′ 14″ N, 8° 16′ 4″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble
Font Shape: hemispheric
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 61 cm*
Basin Total Height: 27 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [Schulze-Dörrlamm (2009: 26)]
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Location: basin side
Inscription Text: 1) "+GERO ET POPVLO XRIANO A[qva]m BENEDICTAM [OSTendo]"
2) "CLERO ET POPULO CHRISTIANO A[QUA]M BENEDICTAM [OST??]
3) "+ GERO ET POPVLO XPIANO [AQU]M BENEDICTAM [FERAM or OFFERAM]"
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Source: 1) Schulze-Dörrlamm (2009: 26) -- 2) Museum label -- 3) [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Schulze-Dörrlamm, Mechthild, "Archäologisch Denkmäler des karolingischen Mainz", Mainz im Mittelalter, Mainz am Rhein: Philip von Zabern, 2009, p. 26-27