Ottum / Öttum
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animal - bird - eagle - wings spread
Scene Description: a heraldic eagle? -- notice the damage to the surface, a vertical crack, on the left wing
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920616F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920616F1] [accessed 17 March 2020]
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animal - bird - eagle - wings spread
Scene Description: a heraldic eagle? - notice the damage to the surface, a vertical crack, on the left wing, repaired here
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920616F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920616F1] [accessed 17 March 2020]
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animal - fabulous animal or monster - centaur - with sword and shield - dragon - fighting - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920616F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920616F1] [accessed 17 March 2020]
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animal - fabulous animal or monster - centaur - with sword and shield - dragon - fighting - flower
Scene Description: notice the dragon's tail coiled around one of the supporting columns, and the large floral motif behind the centaur
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920616F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920616F1] [accessed 17 March 2020]
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cleric - bishop - standing - wearing mitre - with staff in the right hand
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920616F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920616F1] [accessed 17 March 2020]
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cleric - bishop - standing - wearing mitre - with staff in the right hand - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920616F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920616F1] [accessed 17 March 2020]
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human figure - male - warrior - on horseback - with bow and arrow - fighting a lion
Scene Description: notice the large floral motif behind the centaur
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920616F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920616F1] [accessed 17 March 2020]
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human figure - male - warrior - on horseback - with bow and arrow - fighting a lion - detail
Scene Description: notice the arrow making its way towards the lion
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920616F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920616F1] [accessed 17 March 2020]
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symbol - cross - fleuronnée
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920616F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920616F1] [accessed 17 March 2020]
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symbol - cross - fleuronnée
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920616F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920616F1] [accessed 17 March 2020]
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symbol - cross - fleuronnée - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920616F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920616F1] [accessed 17 March 2020]
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symbol - cross - fleuronnée - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920616F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920616F1] [accessed 17 March 2020]
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: on the left is a partial view of the scene in which a mounted warrior fights a dragon, of which only the dragon is visible here -- in the right arch a palm-foliated cross
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Image Source: digital image [2772-010.tif] of an undated B&W photograph in the/ Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Öttums_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000013969.jpg] [accessed 28 February 2020]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © C. Nilsson, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 July 2012 by C.Nilsson [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Öttum_kyrka.jpg] [accessed 28 February 2020]
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view of church exterior - south view
![FONT KMB DETAIL digital image [2772-010.tif] of an undated B&W photograph in the/ Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Öttums_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000013969.jpg] [accessed 28 February 2020] PD Sweden
FONT DETAIL LENNART digital image of a photograph taken by Lennart Karlsson [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foto.asp?imageId=9210917] [accessed 28 February 2020] Source caption: "ryttare i strid med lejon"](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1200317040_compressed.png)
Scene Description: FONT KMB DETAIL digital image [2772-010.tif] of an undated B&W photograph in the/ Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Öttums_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000013969.jpg] [accessed 28 February 2020] PD Sweden
FONT DETAIL LENNART digital image of a photograph taken by Lennart Karlsson [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foto.asp?imageId=9210917] [accessed 28 February 2020] Source caption: "ryttare i strid med lejon"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © C. Nilsson, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 July 2012 by C.Nilsson [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Öttum_kyrka_södra.jpg] [accessed 28 February 2020]
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view of font
![Original caption: "Dopfuntscuppa, sandsten. Indelad av arkader i fem fält. Sprucken, sammanhållen av järnband. Snabbinv. Bilder av en heraldisk örn och en stridande kantaurer [sic]."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0200317042_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Original caption: "Dopfuntscuppa, sandsten. Indelad av arkader i fem fält. Sprucken, sammanhållen av järnband. Snabbinv. Bilder av en heraldisk örn och en stridande kantaurer [sic]."
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Image Source: digital image [2772-009.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by Anna-Stina Julin, in the/ Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%C3%96ttums_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16001000013968.jpg] [accessed 28 February 2020]
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view of font
Scene Description: the fight between the mounted archer and the lion is seen across two arches here -- notice the modern replacement base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken by Lennart Karlsson, in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920616F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920616F1] [accessed 17 March 2020]
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view of font
Scene Description: showing [L-->R]: lion, bishop, eagle in their respective arches
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens historiska museet, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920616F1] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920616F1] [accessed 17 March 2020]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 22588OTT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Öttums kyrka
Church Location: Villabergsvägen 14, Öttum, 535 92 Kvänum, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the O-2626, S of the E20, 16-20 km WSW of Skara
Ecclesiastic Region: Skara stift
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque / Transitional?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Master Othelric? / Skaragruppen
Church Notes: medieval church ; re-built 1870s;
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font listed in Hallbäck (1971). Svenska kyrkan [www.svenskakyrkan.se/savare/harjevad-kyrka] [accessed 28 February 2020] gives master Othelric as the carver of the fonts at Härjevad, Hornborga, Norra Härene, Öttum, Skeby, Västerplana and of the church of Skälvum. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920616F1] as a sandstone baptismal font of the 12th century, Skaragruppen, of which only the basin block has survived; seven shallow arches around the basin include: a bishop, mounted warrior fighting a lion, centaur fighting a dragon, eagle, foliated cross; missing original base replaced with modern moulded and round block. No cover present.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 58.321128, 13.220494
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 58° 19′ 16.06″ N, 13° 13′ 13.78″ E
UTM: 33V 395766 6465841
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: 2
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 76 cm*
Basin Total Height: 57 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 92 cm* [includes modern base]
Notes on Measurements: * Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920616F1]
REFERENCES
Hallbäck, Sven Axel, "Medeltida dopfuntar i Skaraborg", 1971-1972, Västergötlands Fornminnesförenings Tidskrift, 1971-1972, pp. 39-357; s 117 f, 357