Es Fornas de Torello No. 2 / Es Fornàs de Torelló
Results: 2 records
B01: design element - patterns - ribbed
Scene Description: a/p description in Palol (1967)
BIS01: design element - patterns - ribbed
Scene Description: a/p description in Palol (1967)
INFORMATION
FontID: 07584FOR
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: [Found inside the church - present whereabouts not stated]
Century and Period: 5th - 6th century, Early Christian
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Described in Palol (1967: 21) as marble receptacle ornamented inside and out with ribbed pattern; Palol suggests that it may have served for the baptism of children, like the one represented on a stone in Aquileia. [A sunken piscina with an inner well of hemispherical shape was also found in this church -- cf. Index entry for Es Fornas... No. 1]
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, marble
REFERENCES
Palol, Pedro de, Arqueología cristiana de la España romana: siglos IV a VI, Madrid, Valladolid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Instituto Enrique Flórez, 1967