Borgstena
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Results: 31 records
B01: Old Testament - Genesis from the creation to the expulsion from paradise, and later years of Adam and Eve - Garden of Paradise - Tree of Knowldge?
Scene Description: a/p Ellen Fryklund (Roosval, 1917: 39)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2470-074.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by
Sören Hallgren, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borgstena_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200152589.jpg] [accessed 4 May 2020]
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B02: human figure - standing - figure on the left holds a baculum - figure on the right holds a cross
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2470-069.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by
Sören Hallgren, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borgstena_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200152584.jpg] [accessed 4 May 2020]
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B02: human figure - standing - figure on the left holds a baculum - figure on the right holds a cross
Scene Description: the figure on the left faces the viewer; the figure on the righ in profile
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950519F6] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950519F6]
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B03: human figure - standing - 2 - holding jug or container
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2470-068.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by
Sören Hallgren, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borgstena_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200152583.jpg] [accessed 4 May 2020]
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B03: human figure - standing - 2 - holding jug or container
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950519F6] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950519F6]
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B04: human figure - seated - holding book
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Image Source: digital image [2470-075.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by
Sören Hallgren, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borgstena_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200152590.jpg] [accessed 4 May 2020]
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B04: human figure - seated - holding book
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950519F6] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950519F6]
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B05: human figure - 2 - figure on the left seated - figure on the right standing
Scene Description: the seated figure in profile; the standing figure full front
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950519F6] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950519F6]
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B06: Old Testament - Genesis from the creation to the expulsion from paradise, and later years of Adam and Eve - Temptation and Fall - Adam, Eve and the Serpent
![Adam seen here beneath the arch-head; Eve takes the apple from the serpent's mouth; above the serpent's neck is a bubble-like shape containing a Runic inscription [no transcription available] and a head-shaped foliage motif; the large coil in the serpent's body occupies the next arch-head to the right](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1200504031_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Adam seen here beneath the arch-head; Eve takes the apple from the serpent's mouth; above the serpent's neck is a bubble-like shape containing a Runic inscription [no transcription available] and a head-shaped foliage motif; the large coil in the serpent's body occupies the next arch-head to the right
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950519F6] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950519F6]
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B06: Old Testament - Genesis from the creation to the expulsion from paradise, and later years of Adam and Eve - Temptation and Fall - Adam, Eve and the Serpent - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2470-064.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by
Sören Hallgren, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borgstena_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200152577.jpg] [accessed 4 May 2020]
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B06: Old Testament - Genesis from the creation to the expulsion from paradise, and later years of Adam and Eve - Temptation and Fall - Adam, Eve and the Serpent - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2470-066.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by
Sören Hallgren, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borgstena_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200152580.jpg] [accessed 4 May 2020]
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B06: Old Testament - Genesis from the creation to the expulsion from paradise, and later years of Adam and Eve - Temptation and Fall - Adam, Eve and the Serpent - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2470-067.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by
Sören Hallgren, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borgstena_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200152582.jpg] [accessed 4 May 2020]
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B06: Old Testament - Genesis from the creation to the expulsion from paradise, and later years of Adam and Eve - Temptation and Fall - Adam, Eve and the Serpent - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2470-070.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by
Sören Hallgren, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borgstena_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200152585.jpg] [accessed 4 May 2020]
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B06: Old Testament - Genesis from the creation to the expulsion from paradise, and later years of Adam and Eve - Temptation and Fall - Adam, Eve and the Serpent - detail
Scene Description: Eve gets delivered of the appl by the serpent's head; Runic inscription above the sepent's neck
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950519F6] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950519F6]
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B06: Old Testament - Genesis from the creation to the expulsion from paradise, and later years of Adam and Eve - Temptation and Fall - Adam, Eve and the Serpent - detail
Scene Description: supposedly Adam, standing on the left of the scene; is he?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950519F6] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950519F6]
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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - columns
Scene Description: some of the columns are plain; others patterned
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2470-072.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by
Sören Hallgren, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borgstena_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200152587.jpg] [accessed 4 May 2020]
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design element - motifs - varied
Scene Description: all crudely rendered, all different
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Image Source: digital image [2470-072.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by
Sören Hallgren, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borgstena_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200152587.jpg] [accessed 4 May 2020]
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design element - motifs - vine - scroll
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950519F6] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950519F6]
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information
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Image Source: digital image of a full page in Roosval (1917: 39)
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view of basin - projection
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a drawing by B. Borgström, in Roosval (1917: fig. 49)
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view of church exterior - north view
Scene Description: sOURCE CAPTION: "Kyrkan från norr. Tryck av teckning av Ernst Wennerblad, 1892."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2470-001.tif] of a 1892 drawing by Ernst Wennerblad, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borgstena_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200152494.jpg] [accessed 4 May 2020]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rikard Ågren, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 December 2014 by Rikard Ågren [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borgstena_kyrka_6.JPG] [accessed 4 May 2020]
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view of church exterior in context - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rikard Ågren, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 December 2014 by Rikard Ågren [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borgstena_kyrka_4.JPG] [accessed 4 May 2020]
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view of church interior - nave - east end
![showing the replica copy of the font [original at the SHM] [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1200504014_compressed.png)
Scene Description: showing the replica copy of the font [original at the SHM] [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © AB Flygtrafik / Vänersborgs museum, 1976
Image Source: digital image of a 1976 VM photograph taken by Arnes Allköp, Vänersborgs museum [https://digitaltmuseum.se/021015612425/borgstena-interior-av-kyrkan/media?slide=0] [accessed 4 May 2020]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a drawing by B. Borgström, in Roosval (1917: fig. 48)
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view of font
![Source caption: "Dopfunt, 1100-tal eller tidigt 1200-tal. Orginalet och kopian." [NB: the concrete cast replica seen here on the left -- the photograph, though undated, is probably ca. 1952, the date when the cast was made]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0200504015_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Dopfunt, 1100-tal eller tidigt 1200-tal. Orginalet och kopian." [NB: the concrete cast replica seen here on the left -- the photograph, though undated, is probably ca. 1952, the date when the cast was made]
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Image Source: digital image [2470-082.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by
Sören Hallgren, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borgstena_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200152570.jpg] [accessed 4 May 2020]
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view of font
Scene Description: as displayed in the SHM
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Image Source: digital image [2470-060.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by
Sören Hallgren, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borgstena_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200152571.jpg] [accessed 4 May 2020]
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view of font
Scene Description: as displayed in the SHM
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2470-061.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by
Sören Hallgren, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borgstena_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200152573.jpg] [accessed 4 May 2020]
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view of font
Scene Description: as displayed in the SHM
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2470-062.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by
Sören Hallgren, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borgstena_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200152574.jpg] [accessed 4 May 2020]
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view of font
Scene Description: as displayed in the SHM
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2470-063.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by
Sören Hallgren, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borgstena_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200152575.jpg] [accessed 4 May 2020]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950519F6] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950519F6]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 22648BOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Museum and Inventory Number: Statens Historika Museum, Stocholm
Church/Chapel: Borgstena kyrka
Church Location: Länsvägen 3, 513 97 Borgstena, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 33 22 23 00
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län
Directions to Site: Located off länsväg 183, just E of Borgstena, in the municipality of Borås
Ecclesiastic Region: Skara stift
Historical Region: Vedens och Gäsene härad
Font Location in Church: [the font is in a museum; the church has concrete cast]
Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Late Romanesque
Church Notes: 12th-13thC church; re-built mid-18thC; detached bell tower mid-19thC; church restored mid-20thC;
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated by Ellen Fryklund in Roosval (1917) where the basin is identified as sandstone and the base as limestone. In Hallbäck (1966). Noted and illustrated in the SHM’s database Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950519F6] as a baptismal font made of sandstone in the early-13th century by a provincial workshop. The sides of the basin have a the Temptation and Fall scene that includes a Runic inscription; the rest of the basin side is covered by an arcade of round arches with figures in them, and with a variety of floral or foliage motifs in the spandrels; the much-damaged base is round-to-square, with a roll moulding atop, much of which has been lost; one of the sides of the base has a nice vine scroll incised on it, but the whole work is crudely done. The font has been located at the SHM since 1870 but a concrete cast was made of it in 1952 and is now at the parish church in Borgstena.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.880694, 13.028889
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 52′ 50.5″ N, 13° 1′ 44″ E
UTM: 33V 383112 6417131
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone (basin) and limestone (base)
Number of Pieces: 2
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 10 cm [calculated]
Diameter (includes rim): 53 cm*
Basin Depth: 73 cm*
Height of Basin Side: 22 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 90 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Roosval (1917: 40)
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: runes
Inscription Notes: [cf. ImagesArea]
Inscription Location: On the basin side, in the Temptation and Fall scene, above the serpent's head
Inscription Source: Roosval (1917: 39)
REFERENCES
Hallbäck, Sven Axel, "Medeltida dopfuntar i Sjuhäradsbygden", Från Borås och de sju häradena 1966, 1966
Mehling, Franz N., Spain: a Phaidon Cultural Guide, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985