Aquileia / Aquileja
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 02740AQU
Object Type: Baptismal Font2
Font Century and Period/Style: 5th century (late?) (rebuilt in early 11th cent.), Early Christian
Church / Chapel Name: Basilica di Santa Maria Assunta, Aquileia
Church Address: Piazza Capitolo, 1, 33051 Aquileia UD, Italy -- Tel.: +39 0431 919719
Site Location: Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the SR352, about 30 km S of Udine capital
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Cabrol (1907). Described in Bond (1908: 18, 23) as a baptistery of the 8th century. Bond's illustration (ibid., p. 22) is after Cabrol (1907). Illustrated in Lallov (1934), which shows it reconstructed: a large hexagonal raised pool; the ciborium is made up of six very thick round columns which rest outside the plinth of the font; the top is a roof-like wooden frame covered in roof tiles. Described in Bowerstock (1999): early-Christian polygonal baptistery of the late 5th century was rebuilt in the early 11th century. Described in Cuscito (2003: 33ff)
COORDINATES
UTM: 33T 373328 5069753
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 45.769722, 13.370833
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 45° 46′ 11″ N, 13° 22′ 15″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: hexagonal, unmounted
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 18, 23 and fig. 22
- Bowersock, G. W., Late Antiquity: a Guide to the Postclassical World, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999, p. 333
- Cabrol, Fernand, Dictionnaire d'archéologie chrétienne et de liturgie, Paris: Letouzey et Ane, 1907-1953
- Cuscito, Giuseppe, "Gli edifici di culto in area altoadriatica tra VI e VIII secolo: bilancio bibliografico-critico", IX, May 2003, Hortius artium medievalium, 2003, pp. 33-54; p. 33-53
- Lallov, William J., "The Font and the Baptistry", 3, Liturgical Arts, 1934, pp. 80-96; p. 86