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Lapidary

Chapiter

This pilaster chapiter comes from the vanished Romanesque church of Amorim in Póvoa de Varzim and was probably used as a holy water font.
This example is decorated on three sides with figurative warrior scenes. The front displays two men, side by side, playing a musical instrument. On the left side, a man on horseback holds a sword in one hand and the musician’s hair in the other. On the right side, another male figure holds the musician’s right arm, while the latter holds his left arm.

Chapiter — Soares dos Reis National Museum