Sūsah / Apollonia / Apolonia / Susah / Marsa Susa

INFORMATION

Font ID: 07609APO

Object Type: Baptismal Font3

Font Century and Period/Style: 5th century, Early Christian

Church / Chapel Name: Early Christian basilica

Font Location in Church: in the apse of the NE side

Site Location: Barqah, Libya, Africa

Directions to Site: Located on the coastal road, about 65 km WNW of Derna

Historical Region: Western Cyrenaica

Font Notes: Click to view

Cruciform sunken baptismal font [to be researched] -- Palol (1967: 153 fn24, 173) cites P. Romanelli's "La basilica cristian nell'Africa italiana", IV CIArchCrist., 275, and Perkins, J. Ward's "Christian Antiquities of the Cyrenaican Pentapolis", in the Bull. Soc. d'Archéologie copte" 9 (Cairo, 1944) as source.

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. 153 fn24, 173