Gessa No. 2

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design element - motifs - ball - 5

Scene Description: forming a cross on the side of the oil font

Image Source: digital photograph 13 October 2021 by Montserrat Rorat Serra

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 November 2021)

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Scene Description: an oil font and its cover

Image Source: digital photograph 13 October 2021 by Montserrat Rorat Serra

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 November 2021)

view of object in context

Scene Description: an oil font and its cover

Image Source: digital photograph 13 October 2021 by Montserrat Rorat Serra

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 November 2021)

INFORMATION

FontID: 23545GES

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Pedro / Sant Pere / Sant Pèir de Gessa

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: c/ Mayor, 9, 25598 Gessa, Lérida, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Lérida / Lleida, Cataluña / Catalunya

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the C-28, on the N bank of the Garonne river; now in the municipality of Alto Arán, in the Vall d'Aran, 9 km from Viella on the Bonaigua road

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Lérida

Historical Region: Valle de Aran / Vall d'Aran / Alto Arán

Century and Period: , Medieval

Workshop/Group/Artisan: oil font? / pica d'oli?

Cognate Fonts: other such in this area

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Montserrat Rota Serra for her photographs of this object

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Rectagular stone object with a wooden cover. Buron (1980) mentions five hemispheric symbols as ornamentation on its side. The object is probably an oil font [pica d'oli], used in this area of the Pyrenees to collect tithe oil for the lighting and heating of the church; some of them may have been used for baptism as well.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.705414, 0.890203

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 42′ 19.49″ N, 0° 53′ 24.73″ E

UTM: 31T 327211 4730261

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: rectangular (unmounted)

Basin Interior Shape: rectangular

Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: rectangular and flat

REFERENCES

Buron, Vicenç, Esglésies romàniques catalanes, 2a. ed., Barcelona: Artestudi, 1980