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© Museu Nacional Arqueològic de Tarragona
Omeka ID 1863
Tàrraco
Medieval

Visigothic screen

MNAT-50448

Object type
decorative plaque, chancel screen
Production date
501 / 700
Fabric
-
Museum
Museu Nacional Arqueològic de Tarragona
Culture
Medieval
Discovery location
Tàrraco
Materials
Luni-Carrara marble
Township
Tarragona (Europa, Espanya, Catalunya, Tarragona, Tarragonès)
Technique
sculpting
Where is it?
Exposició permanent
Dimensions
116 x 66 x 12,3cm
Description
Rectangular plaque decorated with a central circular motif, a double concentric band around it and five-pointed star-shape in the interior. In the middle it has a circular four-petalled rose making a cross pattée. The spaces between the sides of the star and the circle are filled with a theme of overlapping arches in a kind of fretwork. The two peripheral circles have semicircular scales; the top one to the left, and the interior one to the right. The space between the large central circle and the upper horizontal strip has two six-petalled flowers in a circle. Between them there is another four-petalled flower (like the one in the middle of the plaque's centre), also in a circular theme. The spaces remaining between the floral motifs and the rectangle of the plaque are filled with heart shapes. It is bevel cut with a marked horror vacui. The decorative theme of these plaques, with geometric and plant motifs, as well as some technical particularities in the carving of the stone, characterise it as art from the Hispano-Visigothic period and link it to the local sculpture of that era.

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