decorated impost with a foot on the upper face

MAC OLE-00622

Object type impost

Culture/period Medieval

Materials limestone

Technique carving

Production date 925 / 935

Seu Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Olèrdola

Current location Reserves

Archaeological site Olèrdola. Església de Sant Miquel (sector 06)

Township Olèrdola (Alt Penedès)

Dimensions 155 x 468 x 340 mm

Description

Rectangular impost with a polished upper surface. It has a bevel carved on one of the side faces and it is decorated with a shallow incised line in the upper part and two protruding horizontal semi-cylinders in the lower part. On the upper face there is a schematized engraved foot. It was located during the 2006 excavation in the church of Sant Miquel. This element comes from the structure of a bench located to the right of the door on the west façade, where it had been reused. Another fragment with the same characteristics was recovered from part of the external stairs to access the building. Both pieces, plus a third conserved in situ in a pillar and a fourth embedded in the south wall of the Romanesque building, were part of the pillars that separated the naves in the pre-Romanesque church. The impost was an architectural element that served as a link between a pillar and the arch. GISBERT, M.; MOLIST, N. 2012, Catalog, in N. Molist (coord.), De Sanctus Michaelis to San Miguel. The church of San Miguel de Olerdola between the tenth century and the twenty-first century, the exhibition catalog. City of Olèrdola and Archeology Museum of Catalonia, 85-98 (part no. 10).

Omeka ID 2289