CATÀLEG

         PICA ANDALUSÍ 
    D'AIGUA BENEÏDA 
Castell d'Ambra (Pego) 


Marbre travertí
h: 35.8 cm; a: 20 cm; e: 18.5 cm
Of Islamic origin and Christian reuse
1250-1280
 

It is made of travertine marble with a poly-lobed shape and a straight edge, hollowed out on the inside and with an inverted truncated cone-shaped profile. On the back there is a simple carved decoration made up of a rosary of pearls arranged inside a clearly marked frieze.
The excavations carried out in the chapel of the Castell d'Ambra in 1994 brought to light two fragments of copper which, although they did not match, in terms of their material, shape and decoration belonged to the same piece. After being assembled in the MARQ laboratories, they turned out to correspond to a lobed lobe-shaped water spout, of which only the fragments of the front part have survived. The shape and decoration of the pica, as well as the fact that it is made of travertine, an unusual material in Romanesque carving, suggest an Andalusian origin, possibly reappropriated from a residence in the nearby city of Dénia, which was brought by the Christians to this hermitage in the third quarter of the 13th century before the abandonment of the castle, which took place in 1280 AD.
CS: 8259
AZUAR, R., 2003.