Bullaso No. 2 / Buyaso

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 3 August 2016 by Augusto Guedes de Castro

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 9 August 2016)

design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 3 August 2016 by Augusto Guedes de Castro

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 9 August 2016)

symbol - cross - Latin

Scene Description: a later re-carving? [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: B&W photograph in García de Castro Valdés ([s.d.] 1998?]

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view of stoup

Scene Description: the stoup at the time of García de Castro Valdés's visit [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: B&W photograph in García de Castro Valdés ([s.d.] 1998?]

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view of stoup in context

Scene Description: the stoup mounted on a pedestal base and set against the wall, as displayed in August 2016

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2016 by Augusto Guedes de Castro

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 9 August 2016)

INFORMATION

FontID: 17362BUL

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Nuestra Señora

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Bullaso 33731, Asturias, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Asturias, Principado de Asturias

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the AS-12 in the municipality of Illano and 6 km NW of it

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end

Century and Period: 11th century [re-carved], Romanesque

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Augusto Guedes de Castro for his photographs of this stoup

Church Notes: García de Castro Valdés (2000) notes the presence of a funeral inscription on a stone built into the portal of this church; he transcribes the date as 1063 A.D.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted and illustrated in García de Castro Valdés (1995 and 2000): basin of a holy-water stoup of cylindrical shape made of schist stone, located at the west end of the church, on an altar base; it is decorated with a pattern of ribs or piping all around and a Latin cross on one of the sides, superimposed on the ribbed pattern; GdeCV (ibid.) states that the cross is a re-carving, probably much later than the medieval period. GdeCV (ibid.) suggests a date contemporary with the baptismal font in this church, the 11th century. [NB:the funeral inscription bearing the date 1063 and built into the portal of this church need not be related to the date of the church of the fonts, but does fit into the dating scheme suggested by GdeCV]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 43° 21' 0.98" N, 6° 49' 38.15" W

UTM: 29T 678300 4802033

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, schist

Font Shape: cylindrical

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 4 cm [calculated]

Diameter (inside rim): 27 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 35 cm*

Basin Depth: 11 cm*

Basin Total Height: 22 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * [García de Castro Valdés (2000)]

REFERENCES

García de Castro Valdés, César, "Nuevas piezas de arqueología cristiana altomedieval en Asturias", 7 (2000), Revista de Arqueología del Área de Historia Medieval, 2000, pp. [201]-218; r["References"]

García de Castro Valdés, César, Arqueología cristiana de la alta Edad Media en Asturias, Oviedo: Real Instituto de Estudios Asturianos, 1995