Ortiac No. 2 [originally from Saint-Orens en Lavedan?]

There are two objects in this chapel that may have originated in the nearby priory of St-Orens en Lavedans, one of which is described and illustrated in the BSI entry for Ortiac No. 1; the second is a baptismal font or holy-water stoup built into one of the corners of the interior in this tiny chapel, but quite likely to have originated, like the other, in the St-Orens priory nearby; the vessel consists of a rather shallow round basin with narrow vertical sides and a round underbowl; the sides are decorated with a row of protruding patterned hemispherical motifs, ball-like, some of which are damaged; there is at least one engraved or carved symbol, a stylised cross-shaped trefoil, the outer sides curved down; the base is a thick pedestal with plain sides and only a little bulged at the bottom. Le site des patrimoines du Pays des Vallées des Gaves, de Lourdes à Gavarnie [http://www.patrimoines-lourdes-gavarnie.fr/patrimoine-achitectural/32-1e-les-eglises-canton-d-argeles-gazost] [accessed 28 October 2020] mentions the stoup described and illustrated in the BSI entry for Ortiac No. 1, as well as a bapstismal located in the northwest corner of the nave in this chapel, opposite the aforementioned stoup; it is described as a large basin of about 1 m. in diameter made of whitish limestone and raised on a circular pedestal base of a modern date; the basin is reported as being originally from the priory of Saint-Orens, and to be decorated with 14 round motifs as well as having two incised symbols on it: a stylised fleur-de-lys, and a stem with three pairs of ridges, the latter perhaps the stone mason's mark [="Une grande vasque à l'entrée en calcaire blanc de près de un mètre de diamètre, repose sur un pied cylindrique d'époque récente. Cette vasque venant de l'abbaye de Saint-Orens est décorée de 14 boules-besants. Les deux gravures sous la forme d'une fleur de lys stylisée et d'une tige à trois paires d'arêtes pourraient être la signature du sculpteur."] [NB: we do not have enough information to determine whether this is a font or stoup. It is, however, not unlike some of the baptismal fonts found in the Pyrenean area, on both sides of the border, in the former Diocese of Comminges, and from Catalonia to Navarre on the south].