Assemini No. 1 / Arse Muni / Arsemini / Arx Muni / Assèmini

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Scene Description: John 3,3, on the underbowl of the 18thC font

Image Source: digital photograph in [www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1031974776831150&id=262854920409810] [accessed 20 November 2015]

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view of basin - interior

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 October 2010 by Cristiano Cani [www.flickr.com/photos/cristianocani/5065076699/in/gallery-muccarolina-72157629380977348/] [accessed 20 November 2015]

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view of church exterior - west portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 October 2006 by Pietro Mudu [https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Assemini_san_pietro_portale.jpg] [accessed 20 November 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - capital

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the 18thC font [cf. FontNotes]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20143ASS

Church/Chapel: Chiesa Parrochiale di San Pietro Apostolo

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: piazza San Pietro, 09032 Assemini (CA) - Italia -- Tel.: 070/941565

Country Name: Italy

Location: Cagliari, Sardegna

Directions to Site: Located 15 km NW of Cagliari, on the S of island -- the church is located in the historic centre of town

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesi di Cagliari

Century and Period: 11th century, Romanesque

Cognate Fonts: other 'altar-like' fonts in Zamora cathedral, Spain, and Donzy, Nièvre, France

Church Notes: original church here said to have been mid-11thC; present church 16thC; damaged by fire 1982; restored 2006-2007

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The present font is 18th-century ["fonte battesimale settecentesco" source: www.geosearch.it/s_572/Assemini/chiese/Chiesa-Parrocchiale-di-San-Pietro.php [accessed 20 November 2015]. This modern font resembles an altar when the lid is closed; two other such are listed in this Index: an earlier one at Donzy, Nièvre (France) and one other, also 18th-century, in the cathedral church of Zamora (Spain). The Assemini San Pietro font, has an inner well divided into three compartments, two of the rectangular, the third smaller and round; the outer shape resembles a Baroque altar form, rectangular with curved decorated sides; this font has an inscription on the side with the Latin text of Christ's reply to Nicodemus (John 3,3): "Nisi quis renatus fuerit ex aqua et spiritu [...]" [NB: we have no information on the font of the original mid-11th century church, nor of the font of the 13th-14thC church here].

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UTM: 32S 500000 4348219