Djebeil / Jubail / Jebaïl / Giblet / Byblos / جُبَيْل
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B01: design element - patterns - striated
Scene Description: around the basin sides
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Enlart (1925-1929, album 1 : pl. 38 (fig. 122))
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view of baptistery - east side
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Enlart (1925-1929, album 1: pl. 89 (fig. 270)
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view of baptistery - north-west side
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Enlart (1925-1929, album 1 : pl. 89 (fig. 271)
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view of baptistery - plan
Scene Description: Plan from Enlart (1925-1928), in Deschamps (1964)
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration by Enlart, in Deschamps (1964: 228)
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view of font
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Enlart (1925-1929, album 1 : pl. 38 (fig. 122))
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INFORMATION
FontID: 03725DJE
Object Type: Baptistery
Church/Chapel: Cathedral of St. John the Baptist of Giblet
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Country Name: Lebanon
Location: Keserwan-Jbeil
Directions to Site: Located off the coastal road 51, 2-3 km N of Fidar, about 30 km N of Beirut
Font Location in Church: Attached to the N outer wall of the cathedral
Date: pre-1170?
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: The Early-Christian baptistery at Timgad
Font Notes:
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Enlart (1902) and (1925-1928) describes an ancient baptistery in Djebeil, Syria, attached to the north wall of the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist; the baptistery was square and decorated with Roman-type ornamentation that Enlart dates to ca. 1200 and classes it as the Timgad type. In referring to Enlart's description, Deschamps (1964) suggests a more precise date to before the June 1170 earthquake that left the complex in ruins. The baptismal font itself consists of a cylindrical basin decorated with vertical striations or fluting, a plain chamfered underbowl, raised on a plain cylindrical pedestal base.
COORDINATES
UTM: 36S 744579 3779038
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, unknown
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
Deschamps, Paul, Terre Sainte romane, La Pierre-qui-vire, Yonne: Zodiaque, 1964
Enlart, Camille, Les monuments des croisés dans le royaume de Jérusalem: architecture religieuse et civile, Paris: Librarie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1925-1928
Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902