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© Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Olèrdola
Omeka ID 2289
Olèrdola
Medieval

decorated impost with a foot on the upper face

MAC OLE-00622

Object type
impost
Production date
925 / 935
Fabric
-
Museum
Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Olèrdola
Culture
Medieval
Discovery location
Olèrdola. Església de Sant Miquel (sector 06)
Materials
limestone
Township
Olèrdola (Europa, Espanya, Catalunya, Barcelona, Alt Penedès)
Technique
carving
Where is it?
Reserves
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).

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