Isfahan / اصفهان / Aspadana / Esfahān / Hispahan / Ispahan / Sepahan / Spahān
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design element - motifs - floral or foliage
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © آرش, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 April 2015 by آرش [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vank_Cathedral_Isfahan_Aarash_(131).jpg] [accessed 26 February 2016]
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design element - motifs - tree-like - 2
Scene Description: at the sides of the date inscription
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © آرش, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 April 2015 by آرش [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vank_Cathedral_Isfahan_Aarash_(131).jpg] [accessed 26 February 2016]
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inscription
Scene Description: with the date of the font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © آرش, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 April 2015 by آرش [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vank_Cathedral_Isfahan_Aarash_(131).jpg] [accessed 26 February 2016]
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view of church exterior
Scene Description: ca. 1900
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Image Source: B&W photograph by Joseph Berthelot, Baron de Baye (1853-1931). Tiflis : Souvenirs d'une mission / Par le baron de Baye ; extrait de la Revue deGeographie (Livraisons d'Aout, Septembre et Octobre), dirigee par M. L. Drapeyron. Nilsson, 1900. (Russian State Library) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Armenian_cathedral_of_Vank,_Tbilisi_(de_Baye).JPG] [accessed 26 February 2016]
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view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Gadd, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 September 2007 by Mike Gadd [www.flickr.com/photos/70516919@N00/1680675593] [accessed 26 February 2016]
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view of church interior - painting
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ZhuPix, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 December 2009 by ZhuPix [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heaven_and_Hell_fresco.jpg] [accessed 26 February 2016]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © آرش, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 April 2015 by آرش [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vank_Cathedral_Isfahan_Aarash_(131).jpg] [accessed 26 February 2016]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the upper rim of the font is partially visible in the foreground
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © آرش, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 April 2015 by آرش [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vank_Cathedral_Isfahan_Aarash_(128).jpg] [accessed 26 February 2016]
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ignacio Carrere Gastaminza, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken by Ignacio Carrere Gastaminza
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 Febrero 2016)
INFORMATION
FontID: 20374KEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Holy Savior Cathedral [Սուրբ Ամենափրկիչ Վանք, Surp Amenaprgich Vank / کلیسای وانک or آمنا پرکیج, Kelisa-ye Vank / Amenapergich [aka Church of the Saintly Sisters]
Church Patron Saints: Jesus Christ
Church Location: Vank Church Alley, Isfahan, Iran -- Tel.: +98 916 204 5226
Country Name: Iran
Location: Isfahan, Isfahan
Directions to Site: Located in the Armenian Quarter of Isfahan, in the Jolfa district, 340 km S of Tehran
Font Location in Church: Inside the now-museum area
Date: 1667
Century and Period: 17th century(mid)
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Ignacio Carrere Gastaminza for his photograph of this font, and to Hasmik Torossian for her help with the inscription
Church Notes: Armenian Apostolic (Oriental Orthodoxy) church of early 17thC (1606+ )
Font Notes:
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The object, now [2015] exhibited in the museum of religious artifacts inside the Vank Cathedral in Isfahan, consists of a roughly hemispherical basin of stone decorated only on one side: a row of floral or foliage motifs atop, an inscription in old Armenian below, and the date 1667 in Arabic numerals with a tree-like motif on each side; the stem, which appears to be part of the basin block, is round, plain and very short; the lower base is circular, with ribbed pattern inside and out; the outer pattern in convex, the inner concave. No font cover present.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 32.635052, 51.655617
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 32° 38′ 6.19″ N, 51° 39′ 20.22″ E
UTM: 39S 561496 3611020
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Armenian (Old Armenian)
Inscription Notes: the inscription appears to be a dedication of the font in memory of Grapar (?)
Inscription Location: on the basin side
Inscription Text: "Yegher megou hishadagin e ays djiuroun / Vran hishdig gartats varouje parpar gam krapar e / 1667"
Inscription Source: photograph