Tun
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Old Testament - reconnaissance of Canaan (Numbers 13-14) - return with produce of the land
![Hallbäck [cf. FontNotes] identifies the scene here as the return of the Israelite scouts sent by Moses to explore the land of Canaan, as directed by the Lord in Numbers 13:17ff; the scene refers specifically to 13:23: "And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1201005011_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Hallbäck [cf. FontNotes] identifies the scene here as the return of the Israelite scouts sent by Moses to explore the land of Canaan, as directed by the Lord in Numbers 13:17ff; the scene refers specifically to 13:23: "And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920521F5] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920521F5] [accessed 5 October 2020]
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design element - motifs - piping or ribbed
![two of them are visible here, on the tall underbowl chamfer [the lower base is a modern replacement]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0201005006_compressed.png)
Scene Description: two of them are visible here, on the tall underbowl chamfer [the lower base is a modern replacement]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2750-030.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by Adolf Niklasson, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tuns_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200169406.jpg] [accessed 5 October 2020]
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design element - motifs - rope
Scene Description: all around; very worn in some areas
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920521F5] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920521F5] [accessed 5 October 2020]
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view of basin in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Tun socken. Åse härad. Västergötland. Kyrkan. Dopfunt."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [1M16-A47] of a 1894 B&W photograph by Sanfrid Welin in the VGM Foto collection, Västergötlands museum [https://digitaltmuseum.se/021017190785/1m16-a47] [accessed 5 October 2020]
Copyright Instructions: Public domain mark (CC pdm)
view of basin in context
![Source caption: "Tuns kyrka [...] Dopfunt, cuppa, sandsten, samt rosettformad slutsten."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0201005005_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Tuns kyrka [...] Dopfunt, cuppa, sandsten, samt rosettformad slutsten."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2750-029.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by Anders Roland, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tuns_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200169405.jpg] [accessed 5 October 2020]
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Tuns kyrka. Kyrka, äldre, teckning ur Peringskiölds Monumenta, avfotograferad i färg." -- this church would be demolished in 1846 and a new one built on the same site and re-using some of the remnants of the old
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Image Source: digital image of a late-17thC drawing in Peringskiöld's Monumenta, Kungl. Biblioteket Peringskiöld, Johan, Monumenta Sveo-Gothorum. 9 : Monumenta per Westrogothiam, Scaniam, Hallandiam, Blekingiam [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tuns_kyrka_-_Peringskiöld.jpg] [accessed 5 October 2020]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
![Source caption: "Tuns kyrka [...] Kyrkan från sydöst. Tryck efter teckning av Ernst Wennerblad 1884."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0201005004_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Tuns kyrka [...] Kyrkan från sydöst. Tryck efter teckning av Ernst Wennerblad 1884."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2750-005.tif] of a 18 January 1884 drawing by Ernst Wennerblad, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tuns_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200169381.jpg] [accessed 5 October 2020]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gunnar Creutz, 2008
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 31 August 2008 by Gunnar Creutz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tuns_kyrka_i_Västergötland_1086.jpg] [accessed 5 October 2020]
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view of church exterior in context - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ALLvet, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 July 2020 by ALLvet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tuns_kyrka.jpg] [accessed 5 October 2020]
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view of church interior - looking east
![the top of the modern basin is visible at the far [east] end, right [south] side, by the psalm board](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0201005003_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the top of the modern basin is visible at the far [east] end, right [south] side, by the psalm board
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2750-022.tif] of a 1951 B&W photograph by Adolf Niklasson, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tuns_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200169398.jpg] [accessed 5 October 2020]
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "Tuns kyrka [...] Dopfunt, cuppa, sandsten, 1500-talet?, med ny fot."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2750-030.tif] of an undated B&W photograph by Adolf Niklasson, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tuns_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200169406.jpg] [accessed 5 October 2020]
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view of font
Scene Description: the medieval upper part is now raised on a modern round-to-square base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920521F5] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920521F5] [accessed 5 October 2020]
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view of font and baptismal dish
Scene Description: Source caption: "Dopfunten i sv:Tuns kyrka" -- the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sertion, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 August 2009 by Sertion [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_church_of_Tun,_Sweden_-_baptismal_font.jpg] [accessed 5 October 2020]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the modern font at the southeast corner of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Barbro Thörn, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph by Barbro Thörn in Kyrkokartan.se [www.kyrkokartan.se/058171/images/58171_56905967] [accessed 5 October 2020]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
view of font in context
![the re-mounted basin of the medieval font seen now [2020] in the context of the porch [vapenhuset], a sort of mini-lapidarium displaying olf stones from the medieval church here](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1201005013_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the re-mounted basin of the medieval font seen now [2020] in the context of the porch [vapenhuset], a sort of mini-lapidarium displaying olf stones from the medieval church here
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Barbro Thörn, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph by Barbro Thörn in Kyrkokartan.se [www.kyrkokartan.se/058171/images/58171_56905967] [accessed 5 October 2020]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
INFORMATION
FontID: 22936TUN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (basin only)
Church/Chapel: Tuns kyrka
Church Location: Tunvägen 17, 530 30 Tun, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län
Directions to Site: Located off [W] local road O2559 [aka Tunvägen], 10 km NNE of Grästorp, in the municipality and about 40 km WSW of Lidköping
Ecclesiastic Region: Skara stift
Historical Region: Åse härad
Font Location in Church: In the porch [vapenhuset]
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Romanesque
Church Notes: medieval [11th-12thC?] church said to have been built on site of pre-Christian cult site; demolished in 1846; present church of 1846 built on the same site using some of the remnants of the old one
Font Notes:
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Noted in Hallbäck (1971) as a the surviving basin of a medieval baptismal font of sandstone; the original base is missing; the basin is roughly cylindrical and has, according to Hallbäck (ibid.) a single relief scene showing the scouts returning from the land of Canaan, carrying a bunch of grapes between them on a pole (Num. 13:24), a motif, the author notes, completely unique to western Sweden; the upper rim is deecorated with a rope moulding; the author additionally remarks that the font is reminiscent of those from Denmark. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920521F5] as a baptismal font made of sandstone in the late-12th century; the SHM entry adds Hallbäck's identification of the scene with a question mark. There is a modern baptismal font in use in this church, located at the southeast corner of the nave; the re-mounted old basin is displayed in the porch [vapenhuset] together with other old stonework.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 58.431517, 12.7366
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 58° 25′ 53.46″ N, 12° 44′ 11.76″ E
UTM: 33V 367841 6478978
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 65 cm*
Basin Total Height: 49 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920521F5]
REFERENCES
Hallbäck, Sven Axel, Medeltida dopfuntar i Älvsborgs läns norra Västgötadel: Medeltida dopfuntar i Älvsborgs läns norra Västgötadel, 1963