Salona / Colonia Martia Iulia Salonae / Solin / Salonae

INFORMATION

FontID: 05478SAL

Object Type: Baptismal Font3

Country Name: Croatia

Location: Splitsko-Dalmatinska Županija

Directions to Site: Located just ENE of Split, in the Adriatic coast

Historical Region: Dalmatia

Date: ca. 641?

Century and Period: 7th century(or earlier?), Early Christian

Cognate Fonts: Baptisteries at Murano and Torcello, also with square piscinae

Font Notes: Click to view

Listed in Bond (1985, 1908: 18, 21, 23) as an Early Christian baptistery dated ca. 641 or earlier; it has (had?) a square piscina and a colonnade that has survived. [NB: a second baptistery in this site; not yet recorded in this Index]

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

Trifunovic, Lazar, Yugoslavia: Monuments of Art from Prehistory to the Present Day, Belgrade: Jugoslovenska Knjiga, 1988