Tarragona No. 2 / Tarraco
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view of font - upper view
Scene Description: showing the re-set interior to serve as water fountain now
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 Sptember 2015 by Joost Limburg
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Scene Description: notice the hole in the basin, upper right area
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Scene Description: notice the hole in the basin, upper left area
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design element - patterns - ribbed
Scene Description: very irregular ribs on this side; other sides are more evenly sized
design element - patterns - ribbed - concave
Scene Description: the inner ribs are much narrower than the outer ones
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design element - motifs - floral - star in a circle
Scene Description: unlike the other similar one, this floral motif does not resemble a lilly
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 17 Sptember 2015 by Joost Limburg
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design element - motifs - floral - rose - in a circle
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blank
Scene Description: or eroded?
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: very irregular
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design element - motifs - piping
Scene Description: dividing the base into eight panels
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design element - motifs - floral - lily - star in a circle
Scene Description: the combination is reminiscent of some of the Morisco decorations on glazed ceramic fonts of the late-15thC of southern Spain
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symbol - cross - saltire
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 Sptember 2015 by Joost Limburg
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symbol - wheat - sheaf
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 Sptember 2015 by Joost Limburg
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 20044TAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 16th century, Late Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: [original church unknown]
Font Location in Church: [not in a church]
Church Address: Passeig Arqueològic, Av. Catalunya, s/n, 43003 Tarragona, Spain
Site Location: Tarragona, Cataluña / Catalunya, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: The object is located now [September 2015] in the Passeig Arqueològic, Tarragona, an area known as "Conjunto arqueológico de Tarraco" or "Colonia Iulia Urbs Triumphalis Tarraco", a World Heritage site
Font Notes:
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An object located now in the Passeig Arqueològic that surrounds the old town centre; it appears monolithic but of two well marked volumes: a roughly hemispherical basin decorated on the outside by broad irregular ribs, while the inside is carved in much thinner concave ribs [NB: the inside has now been adapted to its use as decorative fountain]; the lower volume is octagonal, with a moulding at the upper end, and vertical piping that divides the [eight?] sides into panels; the panels include a number of motifs or symbols: a saltire cross, a whet sheaf, a rose in a circle, a floral symbol with two encircled stars (?), and one other in which the symbol is a lilly; one or several of the remaining panels appear blank, or totally eroded. There is much damage to the upper rim area, and there is at least one hole in the side, probably made to provide a drain for the fountain. It is a very crude and irregular work, which also makes the dating uncertain, but one should consider some of the later symbols on the base which resemble the decoration on some of the ceramic fonts of the late-15th and early-16th century made in southern Spain.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg, of www.romanicoportugal.org, for his photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 353946 4553559
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 41.1202, 1.26023
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 41° 7′ 12.72″ N, 1° 15′ 36.83″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: yes [cf. FontNotes]
Drainage Notes: no lining