Olmeda de Cobeta / Olmeda de Coveta / Olmeda de Cubeta

Noted and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla-La Mancha: Guadalajara (2009) as a Romanesque baptismal font consisting of an almost cylindrical basin with a round underbowl, decorated with a roll-moulding at the upper rim and a row of round arch-heads with ends that make them appear almost horsehoe, and a pattern of narrow ribs all round; raised on a short circular base with a single roll moulding at its middle. The Enciclopedia… remarks on the similarity of this font with the one at Villarejo de Medina, with which it shares much less than, say, the font at Las Inviernas, with which it has much more in common. The Enciclopedia… (ibid.) suggests the fonts at Ablanque, Cifuentes, Henche, Las Inviernas, Olmeda de Cobeta and El Picazo [now in Guadalajara capital], as being stylistically related, as well as the fonts at Almiruete, Bustares, Ujedos, and the later font at Miedes de Atienza. [NB: the narrow ribbed pattern and the measurements of the basin would indicate a date in the mid- to late-13th century, and an early-Gothic period]