Ravenna No. 3

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INFORMATION
FontID: 05732RAV
Object Type: Baptistery
Church/Chapel: Baptistery of the Orthodox
Country Name: Italy
Location: Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna
Font Location in Church: In the centre of the baptistery
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 Notes: Davies [cf. infra] gives this inscription as testimony of 'pedilavium' in the baptistery of Ravenna
Inscription Location: In the baptistery
Inscription Text: "ubi DEPOSVIT IHS VESTIMENTA ET MISIT aquam / in PELVEM ET LABIT pedes DISCIPVLORVm suorum"
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
Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962
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