Saint-Maurice No. 1 / Agaune / Agaunum
Image copyright © Esteve García Antoñana, 2017
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 15 November 2017)
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Scene Description: Photo caption: "Acte de donation du roi de Bourgogne Rodolphe III à l'abbaye Saint-Maurice (15 février 1018). Source : Fondation des Archives Historiques de l'Abbaye de St-Maurice"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph of the archive document taken 6 April 2006 by Polmars [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Donation_du_roi_de_Bourgogne_Rodolphe_III_à_l'abbaye_Saint-Maurice_(15_février_1018).jpg] [accessed 25 April 2014]
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Scene Description: plaque by the font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Esteve García Antoñana, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 October 2017 by Esteve García Antoñana
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 15 November 2017)
view of basin - interior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Esteve García Antoñana, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 October 2017 by Esteve García Antoñana
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view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: Photograph by: Unknown, or self-timer Date: 15.09.1935 Format: Film, in Riksantikvarieämbetet [kmb.raa.se/cocoon/bild/show-image.html?id=16001000183704] [accessed 25 April 2014]
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view of church exterior - cloister
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Flobert, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 July 2011 by Flobert [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbaye04.JPG?uselang=de] [accessed 25 April 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: the early tower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lothar Spurzem, 1990
Image Source: photograph taken 3 June 1990 by Lothar Spurzem [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:32126_St-Maurice_1990-06-03.jpg] [accessed 25 April 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0-DE
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Flobert, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 July 2011 by Flobert [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbaye03.JPG?uselang=de] [accessed 25 April 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Flobert, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 July 2011 by Flobert [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbaye02.JPG?uselang=de] [accessed 25 April 2014]
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view of font - upper view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Odrade 123, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2011 by Odrade 123 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-Maurice,_Abbaye,_baptistère_médiéval.jpg?uselang=de] [accessed 25 April 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font - upper view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Natasha Hathaway, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 January 2006 by Natasha Hathaway
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 May 2012)
view of font - upper view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Esteve García Antoñana, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 October 2017 by Esteve García Antoñana
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 15 November 2017)
INFORMATION
FontID: 19189MAU
Object Type: Baptismal Font3
Church/Chapel: Abtei Saint-Maurice / Abbaye de Saint-Maurice d'Agaune Territorialis Abbatia Sancti Mauritii Agaunensis [aka Saint-Maurice-en-Valais]
Country Name: Switzerland
Location: Valais
Directions to Site: Located on the banks of the Rhone, off road 21, SE of Monthey and Lac Leman
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocèse de Sion]
Font Location in Church: In the archaeological site of the abbey
Century and Period: 5th century, Early Christian
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Natasha Hathaway and to Esteve García Antoñana for their photographs of this baptistery font
Church Notes: 5th-6thC abbey built on the ruins of a Roman temple; tower is 11thC [re-built in 1945], but church is 17thC
Font Notes:
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Sunken font of the 5th century baptistery excavated in the abbey of Saint-Maurice.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 46.219811, 7.003859
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 46° 13′ 11.32″ N, 7° 0′ 13.89″ E
UTM: 32T 346049 5120407
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone