Sopeira No. 4 / Santa Maria de Alaón / Santa Maria d'Alaó
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Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 20 September 2015 by Mikel Unanue
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Scene Description: the oil font (?) in the context of the west end of the north aisle
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)
INFORMATION
FontID: 20069SOP
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa Maria de Alaón [formerly Monasterio de Santa María de Alaón / Monestir de Santa Maria d'Alaó]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin [and St. Peter]
Church Location: 22583 Sopeira, Huesca, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Huesca, Aragón
Directions to Site: Located in the Alta Ribagorça, about 30 km north of Puente de Montañana (follow the N-230 north) [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 Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the N aisle
Workshop/Group/Artisan: oil font? / pica d'oli?
Cognate Fonts: a somewhat similar one in Calvera, Huesca
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue for his photographs of this object
The tub-like vessel is round, with a lower end larger than the top opening, an uncharacteristic shape for a font; it is locally described as a "pica d'oli" [=oil font], said to have been used in the Middle Ages to collect tithe oil for lighting and heating in these Pyrenean villages, though usually such vessels are roughly rectangular in shape. The round basin is totally plain. There is no cover present. [cf. Index entries for Sopeira Nos. 1-3 for other vessels listed for this church].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
42.31815,
0.749722
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
42° 19′ 5.34″ N,
0° 44′ 59″ E
UTM: 31T 314564 4687553
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
