Object type
panel
Culture/period
Andalusian culture
Materials
plaster
Technique
spatula
Mint
Production date
1000 / 1050
Museum
Museu de la Noguera
Current location
Exposició permanent
Archaeological site
Castell Formós
Township
Balaguer (Europa, Espanya, Catalunya, Lleida, Noguera)
Dimensions
445 x 55 x 60 mm
Description
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Fragment of a decorated panel with polylobed profile. The composition with plant decoration is organized from a symmetrical axis defined by a Tree of Life.
The coping has a composition based on two branches that arise from the same point: on the one hand, two digitate leaves with unilateral lobes form a kind of mandorla, inside which the second branch or three-lobed palmettes develop.
The crown of the tree of life adapts to the same circular shape of the apex lobe of the polylobed panel. Two ring-shaped knots emphasize the points of origin of two pairs of main branches, the lower one reinforced by two funnel-shaped elements, where the trunks of the arabesque emerge, and the upper one, a double spiral with two forked shoots; the top, with a new branch is the stalk of a pine cone, and the lower, more complex triple spiral, and the trunk of the main arabesque, as well as generating the second circular field with pine cones.
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Omeka ID
338