Torre de Palma nr. Monforte de Alentejo / Vila Cardilio / Villa Cardillio

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Image Source: digital image of a drawing in Palol (1967)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07197TOR

Church/Chapel: Paleo-Christian Basilica

Church Location: Villa de Torre de Palma, 7450-250, Portugal

Country Name: Portugal

Location: Alto Alentejo, Distrito de Portalegre

Directions to Site: Located 5 km NW of Monforte and the E802 highway, betwen the N369 (N) and the N243 (S), 50-60 km NE of Evora, 40-50 km NW of Badajoz (Spain)

Historical Region: Lusitania

Font Location in Church: Inside the baptistery room, in the SE

Century and Period: 6th - 7th century, Early Christian? / Visigothic?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg for his photographs of this font

Church Notes: 1st-5thC Roman villa [Villa Lusitano Romana de Torre de Palma]; Early Christian basilica 6th-7thC may have been built on a formar temple to Mars; discovered in 1947; excavated by the University of Louisville in 1993-1999 -- maps of the site available at: www.alentejodigital.pt/perturmonforte/mapa.htm -- also at: www.loiusville.edu/~aoclar01/torredp/intro.htm -- image of the baptistery at: www.apena.rcts.pt/aproximar/assumar/projectossala/visita2.htm#batisterio -- Information in the Instituto Português do Patrimônio Arquitectónico: www.ippar.pt/monumentos/sitio_palma.html

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Cross-shaped baptismal font of the 4th-7th century; located in the paleo-Christian basilica which exists on the NE side of the Villa de Torre de Palma archaeological site [former Roman villa of the Basili family]. [cf. Church notes for information sites]. Palol (1967), who describes and illustrates the site, mentions a small font or piscina on the south side of the nave, in a corner; the baptistery and its font are located in of the chambers which atttach to the nave on the south side, towards the east end; the sunken font is cruciform in shape, with two access ramps from the E and W sides, as well as two immersion lobes (a complex one to the S, and a hemispherical one to the N); all of it is covered in grey marble. Palol (ibid.) dates the font to the 6th century. Noted with some measurements in Ferguson (2009)

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 39.062032, -7.488638

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 39° 3′ 43.31″ N, 7° 29′ 19.1″ W

UTM: 29S 630760 4324747

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: cross-shaped (double cross)

Basin Interior Shape: cross-shaped (double cross)

Basin Exterior Shape: cross-shaped (double cross)

Basin Depth: 100 cm*

Trapezoidal Basin: 290 x 50 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Ferguson (2009)

REFERENCES

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

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?]

Schlunk, Helmut, Die Denkmäler der frühchristlichen und westgotischen Zeit, Mainz am Rhein: P. von Zabern, 1978