Sopeira No. 2 / Santa Maria de Alaón / Santa Maria d'Alaó
Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image and permission received (e-mail of 13 October 2015)
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design element - patterns - zigzag - with bead motif in the angles
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 20 September 2015 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 13 October 2015)
design element - motifs - ball
Scene Description: a row of
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 20 September 2015 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 13 October 2015)
design element - patterns - ribbed - in round arches
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 20 September 2015 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 13 October 2015)
design element - motifs - geometric
Scene Description: incised in the narrow columns of the arches
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 20 September 2015 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 13 October 2015)
view of stoup in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 September 2015 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 13 October 2015)
view of stoup
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 20 September 2015 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 13 October 2015)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 20067SOP
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa Maria de Alaón [formerly Monasterio de Santa María de Alaón / Monestir de Santa Maria d'Alaó]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, wallmounted on one of the pillars
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin [and St. Peter]
Church Address: C. la Iglesia, 22583 Sopeira, Huesca, Spain -- Tel.: +34 974 54 22 29
Site Location: Huesca, Aragón, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the N-230, 10 km S of El Pont de Suert [NB: located between the village and the reservoir - not to be mistaken with Sapeira, located a few kms SE, in the province of Lerida/Lleida]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Barbastro-Monzón [formerly / originally in the diocese of Urgel]
Historical Region: Ribagorza / Ribagorça -- Franja de Ponent
Font Notes:
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Wall-mounted holy-water stoup inside the church; small and roughly hemispherical in shape, has broad upper decorated with doublezig-zag patterns all around, beads in the spandrels; row of ball motif below; underbowl decorated with rib-in-an-arcade pattern all around, the narrow columns incised with tiny star-like motifs; rope moulding at the lower end.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue for his photographs of this stoup
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 314564 4687553
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.31815, 0.749722
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 19′ 5.34″ N, 0° 44′ 59″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: hemispheric
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: no drainage system
Drainage Notes: no lining