Kosice / Košice
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Scene Description: reportedly eagles, gryphs and lions
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 31 July 2010 by Of [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Krstiteľnica.jpg] [accessed 3 November 2015]
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inscription
Scene Description: the Latin inscription is in any event reported as illegble
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 31 July 2010 by Of [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Krstiteľnica.jpg] [accessed 3 November 2015]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ville Miettinen, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 2 August 2009 by Ville Miettinen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cathedral_of_St._Elizabeth_in_Košice.jpg] [accessed 3 November 2015]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Maros M r a z, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 2004 by Maros M r a z [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kosice_-_St._Elisabeth_Cathedral_1.JPG] [accessed 3 November 2015]
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view of church exterior - west view
Scene Description: woodblock of 1866
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Image Source: Bilder aus einem Artikel aus den Mittheilungen der kaiserl. königl. Central-Commission zur Erforschung und Erhaltung der Baudenkmale Band 2, 1857.(siehe PDF-Dokument) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MZK_002_Nr_09_Der_Elisabeth-Dom_zu_Kaschau_in_Ungarn_-_Fig._07_Hauptfassade_nach_Henszelmann.jpg] [accessed 3 November 2015]
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view of church interior - altar and retable
Scene Description: main altar of 1474-1477 contains a total of 48 paintings in three themed cycles: Advent, Elizabeth and the Passion
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dominika Jenčová, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 April 2015 by Dominika Jenčová [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oltár_3_hlavný.JPG] [accessed 3 November 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dominika Jenčová, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 30 April 2015 by Dominika Jenčová [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Int_pohl_3.JPG] [accessed 3 November 2015]
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 31 July 2010 by Of [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Krstiteľnica.jpg] [accessed 3 November 2015]
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view of font and cover in context
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 July 2010 by Of [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Krstiteľnica.jpg] [accessed 3 November 2015]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 20104KOS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Dóm svätej Alžbety [cathedral and parish church]
Church Patron Saints: St. Elizabeth
Church Location: Hlavná, 040 01 Košice-Staré Mesto, Slovakia -- Tel.: +421 55/622 00 79
Country Name: Slovakia
Location: Košice
Ecclesiastic Region: Archdiocese of Košice
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century, Gothic
Church Notes: original 11thC church dedicated to St. Michael documented 1230; 1240s advocation changed to St. Elizabeth; church burnt down 1380; re-built 1380-1508 in five stages; major reconstructions 1887-1896, 1908, 1980-1997, 2008-2009
Font Notes:
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Bronze baptismal font of the 14th century, topped with a modern cover of 1914; it consists of an inverted bell-shaped basin decorated with an illegible Latin inscription on the upper rim, and three rows of small motifs reportedly eagles, gryphs and lions; prominent centre ring atop the splating base, itself decorated with triangular perforations; the font is now mounted on an octagonal stone plinth. Dome-shaped cover of several volumes with ball finial; may have had a cross on the orb originally.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.720486, 21.257591
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 43′ 13.75″ N, 21° 15′ 27.33″ E
UTM: 34U 518946 5396416
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: metal, bronze
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted) -- chalice-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin?
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: around the upper rim of the basin
Inscription Text: [illegible]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1914
Material: metal
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]