Vega del Mar / San Pedro de Alcántara
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view of church and baptistery - plan
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ziegler175, 2001
Image Source: detail of a digital image from a photograph taken April 2001 by Ziegler175 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MaSanPedroDeAlcántara2.jpg] [accessed 25 May 2017]
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view of church exterior in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ikusitaikasi, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2014 by Ikusitaikasi [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Basílica_Paleocristiana_de_Vega_del_Mar.JPG] [accessed 25 May 2017]
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view of church exterior in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ikusitaikasi, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2014 by Ikusitaikasi [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Basílica_Paleocristiana_de_Vega_del_Mar_1.JPG] [accessed 25 May 2017]
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view of church interior - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ikusitaikasi, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2014 by Ikusitaikasi [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Basílica_Paleocristiana_de_Vega_del_Mar_3.JPG] [accessed 25 May 2017]
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view of church interior - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ziegler175, 2001
Image Source: digital image from a photograph taken April 2001 by Ziegler175 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MaSanPedroDeAlcántara2.jpg] [accessed 25 May 2017]
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view of font
Scene Description: ca. 1947? -- the font appears just restored
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: Ars hispaniae (1947: pl. 226)
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Luis Casado Bellagarza, 2002
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2002 by José Luis Casado Bellagarza of cilnianajlcb@terra.es
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 27 November 2002)
view of font
Scene Description: The deterioration on the upper surface and sides is obvious, showing the lack of maintenance since the previous available image from ca. 1947
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Schlunk, 1978
Image Source: Schlunk (1978: pl. 68b)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Palol, 1967
Image Source: B&W photograph in Palol (1967)
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Palol, 1967
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph in Palol (1967)
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Palol, 1967
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph in Palol (1967)
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view of font - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Luis Casado Bellagarza, 2002
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2002 by José Luis Casado Bellagarza of cilnianajlcb@terra.es
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 27 November 2002)
view of font - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Luis Casado Bellagarza, 2002
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2002 by José Luis Casado Bellagarza of cilnianajlcb@terra.es
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 27 November 2002)
view of font - plan
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Palol, 1967
Image Source: detail of a drawing in Palol [after data by Pérez de Barradas] (1967)
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view of font - plan and section
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Palol, 1967
Image Source: drawing in Palol [after data by Pérez de Barradas] (1967)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Palol, 1967
Image Source: detail of a drawing in Palol [after data by Pérez de Barradas] (1967)
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view of font - upper view
Scene Description: in August 2014 -- the reflections and shadows are from the plate of transparent glass (?) that covers the whole font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ikusitaikasi, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2014 by Ikusitaikasi [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Basílica_Paleocristiana_de_Vega_del_Mar_2.JPG] [accessed 25 May 2017]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the font in April 2001
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ziegler175, 2001
Image Source: digital image from a photograph taken April 2001 by Ziegler175 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MaSanPedroDeAlcántara1.jpg] [accessed 25 May 2017]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the font with its new protecting cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Somos Marbella, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph in Somos Marbella http://en.somosmarbella.es/culture/basilica-vega-del-mar/] [accessed 25 May 2017]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: Photograph [ca. 1978] of the basilica with the font showing between the outer wall and the presbiterium, to its right
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Schlunk, 1978
Image Source: Schlunk (1978: pl. 69)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 07159VEG
Object Type: Baptismal Font3
Church/Chapel: Basílica paleocristiana [y necrópolis] de Vega del Mar
Church Location: Calle De Los Eucaliptos, San Pedro de Alcantara, Spain -- Tel.: +34 645 66 31 92
Country Name: Spain
Location: Málaga, Andalucía
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of San Pedro de Alcántara, near Marbella, Costa del Sol. The archaeological site is located to the W of the town, between Calle de los Cipreses (W) and Calle Principe de Asturias (E), N of Calle Dr Eduardo Evangelista
Font Location in Church: In the archaeological site of the nechropolis
Century and Period: 4th - 7th century, Early Christian? / Visigothic?
Cognate Fonts: Similar fonts in Idanha Velha (Portugal), La Skhira (Tunisia), etc.
Credit and Acknowledgements: Our gratitude to José Luis Casado Bellagarza of cilnianajlcb@terra.es for his images of this font
Font Notes:
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Noted in Schlunk (1931), (1945) and (1954). Noted and ilustrated in Pérez de Barradas (1932). Described and illustrated in Palol (1967), after Pérez de Barradas: the sunken font is of a type common in North Africa, in which the inner shape of the well appears to include a square into a cruciform shape; in the interior, two sets of two steps exist on opposite sides; the basin or piscina is romboid-shape on the outside; there is a smaller square basin to the side of the larger one, which Palol (ibid.) suggests -as do other sources- as a receptacle for the baptism of children [others see these additional receptacles as water tanks or ablution wells]; the smaller well has an inner step as well as a drainahge hole; the whole piece, which includes both fonts or wells, is made of brick covered in opus signinum. Palol dates the basilica to the second half of the 6th century. Noted and illustrated in Khatchatrian (1982). Noted in Ferguson (2009). The baptistery is located in a sacristy, thus allowing for access of the catecumen without direct entry into the church. The church is surrounded in a Visigothic nechropolis. [The local Asociación Cilniana reports in the summer 2002 issue of the BOLETIN ROSA VERDE on-line journal that the font, as well as the whole site, is in serous danger of collapsing due to the negligence of the local authorities - images in this journal show vegetation sprouting from the sides, damaged walls, etc.]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 36.472, -4.9904
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 36° 28′ 19.2″ N, 4° 59′ 25.44″ W
UTM: 30S 321674 4038144
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: brick
Font Shape: square-in-a-cross (sunken font)
Basin Interior Shape: square-in-a-cross
Basin Exterior Shape: romboid
Basin Depth: 110 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Depth given in multiple web sources
REFERENCES
Ars hispaniae: historia universal del arte hispánico, Madrid: Editorial Plus-Ultra, 1947-
Ferguson, Everett, Baptism in the Early Church: history, theology, and liturgy in the first five centuries, Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2009
Fontaine, Jacques, Art pré-roman hispanique, La Pierre-qui-vire, Yonne: Zodiaque, 1973-1977
Khatchatrian, Armen, Origine et typologie des baptistères paléochrétiens, Mulhouse: Centre de Culture Chrétienne, 1982
Palol, Pedro de, Arqueología cristiana de la España romana: siglos IV a VI, Madrid, Valladolid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Instituto Enrique Flórez, 1967
Palol, Pedro de, Arte paleocristiano en España, Barcelona: Ediciones Polígrafa, [1969?]