Port de Fornells / Cap del Port de Fornells

INFORMATION

FontID: 07145POR
Object Type: Baptismal Font3
Church/Chapel: Basílica del Cap del Port de Fornells
Country Name: Spain
Location: Menorca, Islas Baleares / Illes Balears
Directions to Site: Located towards the end of the Port
Font Location in Church: Inside the former basilica church
Century and Period: 5th - 6th century, Early Christian? / Visigothic?
Font Notes:
Palol (1961: 25-26) reported at the time of his initial excavation [i.e., 1950s] that a small water conduit had been found, which led the archaeologists suspect the existence of a baptistery in this site. Later sources identify a sunken baptismal font of the late 5th or early 6th century; monolithic and shaped like a four-point star [source: www.balearescultural.com]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: star-shaped

REFERENCES

Caumont, Arcisse de, Essai sur l'architecture religieuse du Moyen Age, principalement en Normandie, Caen: Chalopin fils, 1825
Palol, Pedro de, Arqueología cristiana de la España romana: siglos IV a VI, Madrid, Valladolid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Instituto Enrique Flórez, 1967