Sidi Aoud nr. Boumerdes

INFORMATION

FontID: 07616AOU
Object Type: Baptismal Font3
Country Name: Tunisia / Tūnis
Location: Grombalia, Nābul, Wilāyat
Directions to Site: Located on the NE of the W coast, in the municipality of Boumerdes, 12 km from El Haouaria, near the eastern tip of the Cape Bon Peninsula, approx. 80 kms east of Tunis capital
Century and Period: Early Christian
Font Notes:
A site identified potentially as having an underground baptistery [to be researched] -- Palol (1967: 161-162 fn37) cites L. & Cl. Poisson's "Baptistère découvert dans la région de Sidi Daoud (Cap Bon)", in Karthago, 6 (??): 24

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