Grado No. 1

INFORMATION

FontID: 02741GRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font2
Church/Chapel: Basilica di Sant' Eufemia
Church Patron Saints: St. Euphemia
Church Location: Campo Patriarca Elia, 13, 34073 Grado GO, Italy -- Tel.: +39 0431 80146
Country Name: Italy
Location: Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Directions to Site: Located off the SR352, across the bay from Aquileia
Century and Period: 5th century, Early Christian
Font Notes:
Two early Christian baptisteries in Grado; this one in the church of St. Euphemia (Bowersock, 1999). Illustrated in Cuscito (2003: 33ff): raised tank-type font, hexagonal

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 45.67654, 13.38524
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 45° 40′ 35.54″ N, 13° 23′ 6.86″ E
UTM: 33T 374239 5059378

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: hexagonal (above-ground tank)
Basin Interior Shape: hexagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal

REFERENCES

Arte in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Udine: Magnus, 1999
Bowersock, G. W., Late Antiquity: a Guide to the Postclassical World, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999
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