Asabaa / Al Asabaa / El Asabaa
INFORMATION
Font ID: 07608ASA
Object Type: Baptismal Font3
Font Century and Period/Style: Early Christian
Church / Chapel Name: Early Christian basilica
Font Location in Church: Behind the apse
Site Location: Gharyān, Libya, Africa
Historical Region: Tripolitania
Font Notes:
Click to view
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: sunken font, cruciform, variant
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, p. 173