Holy water font, signed by Raitus, Romanesque, ca 1100 AD: Human protomes, rams, snakes, tree of life

 

Signed inscription: RAITUS ME FECIT 

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"The bowl, set on a light limestone column, consists of a block of dark cubic limestone, flared upwards and dug internally. At the four angles it has two human protomes and two ram heads in the trespass. One of the angular protomes has the inscription with the signature. On the side faces are arranged respectively two intertwined snakes that go to bite a man and a ram; the tree of life that extends with the coils below them; a branch that intertwines creates oval links, within which there are clusters of grapes. Finally, a tree is represented differently characterized, on whose stem appears a second signature."

RAITUS, FIRMATO/DATATO/ISCRIZIONE
ACQUASANTIERA
cm 60x45
62992[1]

Bollettino n. 23, Anno 2001

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