Torcello No. 1
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Scene Description: in the foreground
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INFORMATION
FontID: 05477TOR
Church/Chapel: Cattedrale di Santa Maria dell'Assunta
Church Patron Saints: The Assumprion of St. Mary
Country Name: Italy
Location: Venezia, Veneto
Font Location in Church: Close to the west doorway of the cathedral
Century and Period: 6th - 7th century, Early Christian
Cognate Fonts: Murano and Salona, also with square piscinae
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Listed in Bond (1985 1908) as a square piscina in the 7th-century baptistery of Torcello; the foundations of the baptistery were found "close to the west doorway of the cathedral" (ibid.)
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Font Shape: square (sunken piscina)
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
REFERENCES
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908