Cimiez No. 2 / Cemenelum

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view of baptistery in context

Scene Description: the open metal canopy houses the font and the reconstructed baptistery

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 14 June 2001 by BSI

view of baptistery in context

Scene Description: the reconstructed baptistery

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 14 June 2001 by BSI

view of baptistery in context

Scene Description: the reconstructed baptistery

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 14 June 2001 by BSI

view of context

Scene Description: the wider context of the excavated area

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 October 2009 by Frantz-Samy [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Decumanus_Cemenelum.JPG] [accessed 26 September 2016]

Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0

view of context

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 14 June 2001 by BSI

view of font - insert

Scene Description: showing in the background the conduit to feed water into the font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 14 June 2001 by BSI

view of font - upper view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 14 June 2001 by BSI

view of font - upper view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 14 June 2001 by BSI

view of font - upper view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 14 June 2001 by BSI

view of font - upper view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 14 June 2001 by BSI

view of font - upper view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 14 June 2001 by BSI

view of font - upper view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 14 June 2001 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: showing the full length of the conduit to feed water into the font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 14 June 2001 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: in the reconstructed baptistery

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 14 June 2001 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: showing in the foreground the conduit to feed water into the font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 14 June 2001 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: in the reconstructed baptistery

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 14 June 2001 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: in the reconstructed baptistery

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 14 June 2001 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 04977CIM

Museum and Inventory Number: Musée archéologique de Nice-Cimiez

Church/Chapel: in a museum

Church Location: 160, avenue des Arènes, 06 000 Nice, France -- Tel.: +33 (0)4 93 81 59 57

Country Name: France

Location: Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Directions to Site: the Museum is located on a hill just N of Nice

Font Location in Church: in a museum

Century and Period: 5th century, Early Christian

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are our grateful to the director and the staff at the museum for their help in accessing the off-limits site

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

On-site notes: the sunken piscina of this baptistery has been beautifuly reconstructed in the gardens of the Musée archéologique de Cimiez, among the ruins of the 3rd century Roman baths for women. The font has a hexagonal shape, with one set of steps leading down to the deeper recess where the feet of the baptizand would rest. Noted in Ferguson (2009).

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 43.718989, 7.276184

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 43° 43′ 8.36″ N, 7° 16′ 34.26″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: hexagonal (sunken)

Basin Interior Shape: hexagonal

Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal

Drainage Notes: water channels are visible on the reconstructed site

Diameter (inside rim): 145-165 cm

Basin Depth: 40-85 cm*

Notes on Measurements: BSI *[the well upper platform is only 40 cm deep but the three added steps lead to the deepest part which is 85 cm deep]

REFERENCES

Les premiers monuments chrétiens de la France, Paris: A. Picard ; Ministère ce la culture et de la francophonie, Direction du patrimoine, Sous-direction de l'archéologue, 1995-1998

Ferguson, Everett, Baptism in the Early Church: history, theology, and liturgy in the first five centuries, Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2009

Guyon, Jean, Les premiers baptistères des Gaules (IVe-VIIIe siècles), Roma: Unione Internazionale degli Istituti di Archeologia, Storia e Storia dell'Arte in Roma / Union des instituts étrangers de Rome, 2000