Grado No. 2 / Gradež / Grau / Gravo
INFORMATION
Font ID: 02472GRA
Object Type: Baptistery
Font Century and Period/Style: 4th - 6th century, Early Christian
Church / Chapel Name: Basilica della Corte? / Associated with the church in Piazza Vittoria
Church Address: Piazza della Vittoria / Piazza della Corte, 34073 Grado GO, Italy -- Tel.: +39 0431 877111
Site Location: Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy, Europe
Font Notes:
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The second of two early Christian baptisteries in Grado. The source (Bowersock, 1999) associates it to the church on Piazza Vittoria and dates it to the 5th-6th century. The recunstructed sunken piscina is octagonal and appears covered in marble stones (Arte in Friuli, 1999). [NB: these remains may be the ones located under the Town Hall, a palaeo-Christian basilica in Piazza Vittoria]
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 45.67558056, 13.3858644
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Font Shape: octagonal building
REFERENCES
- Arte in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Udine: Magnus, 1999, p. 60-65
- Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962, p. 3-4