Venosa No. 1

INFORMATION

FontID: 04910VEN

Object Type: Baptismal Font3

Church/Chapel: [now in the Chiesa Incompiuta della SS. Trinità]

Country Name: Italy

Location: Potenza, Basilicata

Directions to Site: Located just NW of Potenza. The archaeological site is located in Corso Vittorio Emanuele, near the Chiesa Incompiuta della SS. Trinità

Century and Period: 5th - 6th century, Early Christian

Font Notes: Click to view

According to Garzya Romano (1988: 57) prospections carried out in 1958, and other more recent ones, discovered the existence of an Early Christian baptistery in the SW area of the area. Reported also in Il Caprifoglio (anno VII, no. 1-giugno 1995): 7 [www.capricultura.org/bora.html]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Font Shape: round (sunken)

Basin Interior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Garzya Romano, Chiara, Calabre et Basilicate romanes, La Pierre-qui-Vire, Yonne: Zodiaque, 1988