Grado No. 1
INFORMATION
Font ID: 02741GRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font2
Font Century and Period/Style: 5th century, Early Christian
Church / Chapel Name: Basilica di Sant' Eufemia
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Euphemia
Church Address: Campo Patriarca Elia, 13, 34073 Grado GO, Italy -- Tel.: +39 0431 80146
Site Location: Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the SR352, across the bay from Aquileia
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 33T 374239 5059378
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 45.67654, 13.38524
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 45° 40′ 35.54″ N, 13° 23′ 6.86″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: above-ground tank, hexagonal
Basin Interior Shape: hexagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal
REFERENCES
- Arte in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Udine: Magnus, 1999, p. 60-65
- Bowersock, G. W., Late Antiquity: a Guide to the Postclassical World, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999, p. 333
- 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