Cimiez No. 2 / Cemenelum

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

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view of font - upper view

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

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view of font - upper view

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view of font - upper view

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view of font - upper view

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view of font - upper view

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

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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]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: in the reconstructed baptistery

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

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view of font in context

Scene Description: in the reconstructed baptistery

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

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view of baptistery in context

Scene Description: the reconstructed baptistery

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

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view of baptistery in context

Scene Description: the reconstructed baptistery

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

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view of font in context

Scene Description: in the reconstructed baptistery

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

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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

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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

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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

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 04977CIM

Object Type: Baptismal Font3

Date Visited: 2001-06-14

Font Century and Period/Style: 5th century, Early Christian

Museum: Musée archéologique de Nice-Cimiez

Church / Chapel Name: in a museum

Font Location in Church: in a museum

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

Site Location: Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France, Europe

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

Additional Comments: re-cycled baptistery: reconstructed piscina

Font Notes: Click to view

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).

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

COORDINATES

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 43.718989, 7.276184

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

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: sunken font, hexagonal

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, vol. 1: p. 103-108
Ferguson, Everett, Baptism in the Early Church: history, theology, and liturgy in the first five centuries, Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2009, p. 843-844
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