Es Fornas de Torello No. 1 / Es Fornàs de Torelló

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Imatges de la Basílica Paleocristiana de Fornàs de Torelló a Maó"
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INFORMATION
FontID: 07583FOR
Church/Chapel: Basilica Paleocristiana
Church Location: Camí de Torelló, Mahón, Menorca, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Menorca, Islas Baleares / Illes Balears
Directions to Site: Located in the property known as Es Fornás de Torelló, off the Camí de Torelló, WSW of Mahón, 300 m. NE of the talayor of Torelló
Font Location in Church: In one of the rooms at the NW of the church
Century and Period: 5th - 6th century, Early Christian
Cognate Fonts: A similar one in Illeta del Rey (Isla del Rey), in the same area
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Described and illustrated in Palol (1967) as a small sunken piscina with an inner well of hemispherical shape, and a central drainage hole. [Palol (ibid.) informs of the finding of a second object in this church related to baptism: a marble receptacle suspected to have served for the baptism of children (Palol refers to the representation on a stone at Aquileia). In Iturgáiz (1971). Noted in Khatchatrian (1982), with references to Serra Rafiols (1958) and Palol (1960). [cf. Index entry for Es Fornas... No. 2]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
39.883328,
4.223297
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
39° 52′ 59.98″ N,
4° 13′ 23.87″ E
UTM: 31S 604599 4415524
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: round (sunken font)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: [not visible in Palol's illustration]
Basin Depth: 38 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Iturgáiz (1971: 550)
REFERENCES
Caumont, Arcisse de, Essai sur l'architecture religieuse du Moyen Age, principalement en Normandie, Caen: Chalopin fils, 1825
García de Castro Valdés, César, Arqueología cristiana de la alta Edad Media en Asturias, Oviedo: Real Instituto de Estudios Asturianos, 1995
Iturgáiz, Domingo, "Arquitectura y liturgia bautismal hispanovisigoda", 98, 1971, Ciencia tomista, 1971, pp. 531-579; r["References"]
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?]