Hontangas No. 2 / Fontangas

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - patterns - fluted

Scene Description: alternating broad flutes on the sides and narrow flutes at the angles

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - patterns - ribbed

Scene Description: very broad ribs; notice the large notch carved out of one of the ribs, as if it had been made wo accommodate and anchoring for the lock of a cover

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of basin - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of basin and base - detail

Scene Description: notice the matched crack line below the moulding; was the base made to match the damaged bottom of the basin underbowl of was the whole object a single block that broke along the lines seen now?

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Pedro Lozano Huerta (e-mail of 22 February 2021)

view of stoup

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of stoup in context

Scene Description: with the doorway in the background

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of stoup in context

Scene Description: with the doorway in the background

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Pedro Lozano Huerta (e-mail of 22 February 2021)

INFORMATION

FontID: 23183HON

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Juan Bautista

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Church Location: Plaza Mator 3, 09462 Hontangas, Burgos, Spain -- Tel.: +34 947 53 11 22

Country Name: Spain

Location: Burgos, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located off the BU-200, 15 km SW of Aranda de Duero, 100 km S of Burgos capital

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos

Historical Region: Comunidad de Villa y Tierra de Aza, Ribera del Duero

Century and Period: , Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue and to Pedro Lozano Huerta for their photographs of this stoup

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Stone holy-water stoup inside the church, by the entranceway; round basin with broad ribs or piping all around, a circular platform below and a tapering underbowl with fluting all around; stands on a pedestal base of square shape with broad fluted on the sides and narrow ones at the angles; the basin and the base may have been originally one piece, unless the base was made later to match the irregular bottom of the basin. There is an odd indentation in one of the lobes of the basin side, as if it had been made to house a lock, a common enough feature on fonts but very rare on stoups. Or was this another object later re-cycled as a stoup? Probably medieval. [cf. BSI entry for Nontangas No. 1 for the baptismal font in this church]

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UTM: 30T 433638 4603729