Timgad / Marciana Traiana Thamugadi / Tīmqād / تيمقاد
Image copyright © Davies, 1962
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design element - motifs - geometric
Scene Description: covering the bottom of the inside well of the reconstructed sunken font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lancel, 2003
Image Source: Lancel (2003: 224)
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design element - patterns - zigzag
Scene Description: all around the three steps of the reconstructed interior of the sunken font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lancel, 2003
Image Source: Lancel (2003: 224)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Davies, 1962
Image Source: Davies (1962: pl. 5)
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INFORMATION
FontID: 03216TIM
Country Name: Algeria
Location: Wilaya de Batna
Directions to Site: Timgad is located off (W) the RN87, in the Constantine dept., 34 kms ESE of Batna; excavated ruins.
Historical Region: Constantine
Century and Period: 4th - 5th century, Early Christian
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Listed and illustrated by Lallov (1934) as a "piscina of baptistry", it is an polygonal (very irregular sides) raised font, with probably 1/3 to 1/5 into the ground; there are three steps all around the font into the well. Lallov dates it to the 4th-5th century. Davies (1962: ix, 19, 31 and pl. 5) describes it as hexagonal and illustrates its beatifully decorated inside [reconstructed]. A detaild of the colourful mosaic work of the inside of the basin is also illustrated in Lancel (2003: 224)
COORDINATES
UTM: 32S 270351 3929683
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, type unknown
Font Shape: hexagonal (sunken piscina)
Basin Interior Shape: hexagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal
REFERENCES
Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962
Lallov, William J., "The Font and the Baptistry", 3, Liturgical Arts, 1934, pp. 80-96; r["References"]
Lancel, Serge, L'Algérie antique: de Massinissa à saint Augustin, Paris: Mengès, 2003