page_title: Hilarri
section_title: Rosettes
hierarchical_section_title: Hilarri / Ornamentation / Typology / Rosettes
caption_attribution_description: Hilarri in Bidarray, Lower Navarre, French Basque Country with 6-sided rosette pattern.
context_page_description: Hilarri is the name given to disk-shaped funerary steles that are typical of the Basque Country.
  These funerary steles present a disc-shaped head facing the rising sun on a trapezoidal stand. They belong to an old tradition throughout all of the Western Mediterranean, which includes parts of Europe and North Africa, but today they are mainly found in the Basque Country.
context_section_description: Many steles are decorated by single rosettes. In this case the order of symmetry is often 6. The most frequent figures are:
  rosettes made up of 6 laurel leaves (with 2 in a horizontal plane);
  rosettes with 8 to 36 petals radiating from a central spot;
  stars as pentagram, hexagram or octogram (with 5, 6 or 8 points) ; sometimes an armed-cross is superimposed, arms being inserted between points;
  a square made up of 4 smaller squares;
  one circular string making up 4 or 6 loops around a central spot or circle, or 2 of them doing 8 loops; these rosettes seem static but in fact, loops have a sense of rotation that can be figured (the cord toward the right upside) or not.
caption: A figure with 6 loops.
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