Asabaa / Al Asabaa / El Asabaa

INFORMATION

FontID: 07608ASA

Church/Chapel: Early Christian basilica

Country Name: Libya

Location: Gharyān

Historical Region: Tripolitania

Font Location in Church: Behind the apse

Century and Period: , Early Christian

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Cruciform sunken baptismal font [to be researched] -- Palol (1967: 153 fn24 and 173 fn48) cites Perkins-Goodchild's "Christian Antiquities of Tripolitania" in Archaeologia 95 (1953: 16) as source with mention of several cruciform fonts

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Font Shape: cruciform variant (sunken)

Basin Exterior Shape: cruciform

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