Gessa No. 2
Image copyright © Montserrar Rota Serra, 2021
Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 November 2021)
Results: 3 records
design element - motifs - ball - 5
Scene Description: forming a cross on the side of the oil font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montserrar Rota Serra, 2021
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montserrar Rota Serra, 2021
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montserrar Rota Serra, 2021
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
Font ID: 23545GES
Object Type: Other
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Workshop/Group/Artisan: oil font? / pica d'oli?
Cognate Fonts: other such in this area
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Pedro / Sant Pere / Sant Pèir de Gessa
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: c/ Mayor, 9, 25598 Gessa, Lérida, Spain
Site Location: Lérida / Lleida, Cataluña / Catalunya, Spain, Europe
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
Font Notes:
Click to view
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.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Montserrat Rota Serra for her photographs of this object
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 327211 4730261
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.705414, 0.890203
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 42′ 19.49″ N, 0° 53′ 24.73″ E
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, p. 380