Ravenna No. 3
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Image Source: Corblet (1881: v. 2, p. 39)
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Scene Description: Illustration in Lasteyrie (1929) showing the font as well as the interior of the building
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lasteyrie, 1929
Image Source: Lasteyrie (129: fig. 100)
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view of baptistery - plan
Scene Description: Illustration in Lasteyrie (1929): plan of the baptistery with the font in its centre
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lasteyrie, 1929
Image Source: Lasteyrie (129: fig. 99)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Davies, 1962
Image Source: Davies (1962: pl. 3)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05732RAV
Object Type: Baptistery
Church / Chapel Name: Baptistery of the Orthodox
Font Location in Church: In the centre of the baptistery
Site Location: Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, Europe
Font Notes:
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Listed and illustrated (interior and font) in Lasteyrie (1929: figs. 99, 100). The octagonal font is illustrated in Corblet (1881: v. 2, p. 39). Described and illustrated in Davies (1962: 36ff and pl. 3)
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Font Shape: octagonal
Basin Interior Shape: octagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Location: In the baptistery
Inscription Text: "ubi DEPOSVIT IHS VESTIMENTA ET MISIT aquam / in PELVEM ET LABIT pedes DISCIPVLORVm suorum"
Inscription Notes: Davies [cf. infra] gives this inscription as testimony of 'pedilavium' in the baptistery of Ravenna
Inscription Source: Davies (1962: 40), after L. De Bruyne's 'La décoration des baptistères paléochrétiens', in Actes (p. 346, n. 12)
REFERENCES
- Corblet, Jules, Histoire dogmatique, liturgique et archéologique du sacrement de baptême, Paris: V. Palme, 1881-1882, vol. 2, ill. on p. 39
- Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962, p. ix, 3, 17fn5,, 19, 26, 33, 36ff, 40, 127 and pl. 3
- Lasteyrie du Saillant, Robert Charles, conte de, Architecture réligieuse en France à l'époque romane (2e éd., avec une bibliographie critique par Marcel Aubert), Paris: A. Picard, 1929, figs. 99, 100