Sabratha / Ṣabrātah / Abrotonum / صبراتة

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Basilica of Apuleus, Byzantine baptistery, Sabratha,Libya"

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Baptistère paléochrétien à Sabratha,"

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07606SAB
Church/Chapel: Early Christian basilica
Church Location: RF4M+PXM [Downtown Sabratah], Sabratah, Libya
Country Name: Libya
Location: Az Zāwiyah, Tripolitania
Directions to Site: Located in the district of Zawia, on the coastal road, about halfway between Tripoli and Zauara to the West (32 48' N - 12 28' E) -- the basilica is S othe forum
Historical Region: Tripolitania
Font Location in Church: On the S side of the church
Century and Period: , Early Christian
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help documenting this font
Church Notes: for an overall view of the site see http://www.astrode.de/libyen/libyen2.htm [accessed 6 December 2023]
Cruciform sunken baptismal font of the Early Christian period noted in Palol (1967: 153 fn24, 172-173, fn48) citing Perkins-Goodchild's "Christian Antiquities of Tripolitania" in Archaeologia 95 (1953) and P. Romanelli's "La basilica cristiana nell'Africa italiana", IV CIArchCrist., 275, as source. The font [cf. ImagesArea] appears to have an external octagonal shape and made of stone blocks cemented together; the inner basin is cruciform and has steps leading to the bottom; four holes in the upper area suggest that there may have been a ciborium of sorts installed above the centre part, whether on wooden of stone columns; only the four holes remain now.

COORDINATES

UTM: 33S 264400 3631056

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (sunken font)
Basin Interior Shape: cruciform
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

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