Santa Cruz de Mudela No. 1
Image copyright © Loli Rodríguez, 2015
Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 13 April 2015]
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Scene Description: a composite of two Roman artifacts used as a baptismal font in this rural chapel [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Loli Rodríguez, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken by Loli Rodríguez
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 13 April 2015]
design element - motifs - handle - 4
Scene Description: mortar handles
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Loli Rodríguez, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken by Loli Rodríguez
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 13 April 2015]
design element - patterns - scalloped
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Loli Rodríguez, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken by Loli Rodríguez
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 13 April 2015]
design element - motifs - flat moulding - parallel - 2
Scene Description: like belts around the circular stem; the lower one is half buried in the flooring
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Loli Rodríguez, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken by Loli Rodríguez
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 13 April 2015]
INFORMATION
Font ID: 19826MUD
Object Type: Other
Object Details: mortar, pulvinus, Roman
Font Century and Period/Style: [composite font / recycled Roman object], [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Ermita de Nuestra Señora de las Virtudes / Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Las Virtudes
Font Location in Church: Inside the rural chapel [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: chapel appears to be mudéjar, 15th-16thC
Church Address: 13730 Santa Cruz de Mudela, Ciudad Real, Spain
Site Location: Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the CR-P-5222, 75 km SE of Ciudad Real capital. The rural chapel is located 3 km off the E-5, 7 km from the town of Santa Cruz de Mudela, 20 km from Valdepeñas
Historical Region: Manserja, Campo de Calatrava
Additional Comments: composite font / re-cycled font (formerly a Roman pulvinus and a large (Roman?) mortar)
Font Notes:
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Composite object used as baptismal font in the rural chapel known as Ermita or Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Las Virtudes, a few kms. from Santa Cruz de Mudela. Noted and illustrated on 14 June 2013 in a press release of the UCLM (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha), campus Ciudad Real. The importance of this object is centered on the 'base' of the font, identified as a 'pulvinus' from a Roman funeral monument; the object is made of marble, cylindrical in shape, its sides covered in a scaled pattern with a flat moulding about 2/3 down the side; the 'basin' has the definite appearance of a large mortar, roughly semicircular with for four knobs or handles at 90-degrees around the upper rim, perhaps Roman as well. The UCLM release suggests the pulvinus may have originated in the lost Roman town of Ad Turres.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Loli Rodríguez and to Mikel Unanue por bringing this object to our attention
COORDINATES
UTM: 30S 459383 4276192
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble [base only]
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining