Oreto nr. Granatula de Calatrava / Granátula de Calatrava/ Oreto y Zuqueca / Oretum / Oretum Germanorum
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Scene Description: the exterior of the rural chapel on the left, and the excavation site in which the Early Christian baptismal font was discovered
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 April 2007 by Eduardo A. Sánchez Ferrezuelo and Érika López Gómez [http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Yacimiento_de_oreto_zuqueca_2.jpg] [accessed 1 June 2012]
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Granátula. Ermita de Oreto y Zuqueca [...] Yacimiento arqueológico de Oreto y Zuqueca."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Enrique Íñiguez Rodríguez (Qoan), 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 6 December 2014 by Enrique Íñiguez Rodríguez (Qoan) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Granátula._Ermita_de_Oreto_y_Zuqueca.jpg] [accessed 11 April 2024]
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Centro de Estudios Calatravos, 2024
Image Source: digital image of content in the Centro de Estudios Calatravos site [https://cec.campodecalatrava.com/sites/default/files/zuqueca_1.pdf] [accessed 11 Aril 2024].
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INFORMATION
FontID: 18049ORE
Object Type: Baptismal Font3
Church/Chapel: Ermita de Nuestra Señora de Oreto y Zuqueca [Yacimiento arqueológico de Oreto y Zuqueca]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: 13360, Ciudad Real, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha
Directions to Site: Located off the CM-413, SE of Ciudad Real capital, in the municipality and 4 km S of Granatula de Calatrava, between Cerro Domínguez and Cerro de los Obispos
Ecclesiastic Region: Archidiócesis de Toledo
Historical Region: Castilla la Nueva / Oretania
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 4th century (?), Early Christian
Church Notes: Oreto [the name of Granatula in pre-Visigothic times] was an episcopal see under the archdiocese of Toledo at the time
Font Notes:
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Noted in Garcés & Ripoll (2010) as a 4th-century baptismal font discovered in the excavation of a possible Hispano-Roman religious site and, later, a Visigothic necropolis, by the side of the Ermita de Nuestra Señora de Oreto y Zuqueca ["el testimonio material más importante de esa época es una pila bautismal por inmersión, fechada en el siglo IV, que ya indica la cristianización del lugar."] The font is reported as being very close to the walls of the 13th-century 'ermita'. For a detailed view of the archaeological work and of the re-constructed baptismal font visit the Centro de Estudios Calatravos site [https://cec.campodecalatrava.com/sites/default/files/zuqueca_1.pdf] [accessed 11 Aril 2024]. The entry for this archaeological site in the Spanish Wikipedia [https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yacimiento_arqueológico_de_Oreto_y_Zuqueca] [accessed 11 April 2024] reports "una pila bautismal paleocristiana del siglo IV" in it.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 38.759848, -3.718024
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 38° 45′ 35.45″ N, 3° 43′ 4.88″ W
UTM: 30S 437615 4290372
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Font Shape: polylobed
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: trefoiled
REFERENCES
Garcés Tarragona, Ana M., "De 'Sikka' a Zuqueca: un topónimo caminero de Oreto (Granátula de Calatrava, prov. Ciudad Real)", X Congreso Internacional de Caminería Hispánica (Madrid, del 21 al 25 de Junio de 2010), 2010