Cairo No. 2 / Al-Qāhirah / Abu Serga / St. Sergius

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animal - mammal - gazelle - passant-regardant

Scene Description: several, around the base

Image Source: digital photograph 11 March 2023 [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman

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design element - motifs - floral and foliage

Scene Description: around the base sides

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design element - motifs - torus-scotia-torus

Scene Description: all around

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symbol - cross - Greek - treflée - in a cartouche

Scene Description: on the base side

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symbol - cross - Greek - tréflée - in a circle

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view of church exterior - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of Sts. Sergius and Bacchus (Abu Serga) in Old Cairo, 4th century"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Mortel, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph 27 April 2022 by Richard Mortel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_of_Sts._Sergius_and_Bacchus_(Abu_Serga)_in_Old_Cairo,_4th_century_(2)_(52087180651).jpg] [accessed 3 November 2023]

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view of church exterior - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Eingang zur Kirche der hl. Sergius und Bacchus, Alt-Kairo, Ägypten"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roland Unger, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph 1 March 2007 by Roland Unger [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OldCairoStSergiusEntrance.jpg] [accessed 3 November 2023]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "View from near Ben Ezra Synagogue towards the Church of St Sergius (foreground) and the Monastery of St George (background)"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Moushira, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph 21 February 2012 by Moushira [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CairoCopChurch.jpg] [accessed 3 November 2023]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Sergios-und-Bakchos-Kirche (Abu Serga) in Kairo, Ägypten"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Olaf Tausch, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph 16 October 2019 by Olaf Tausch [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abu_Serga_01.jpg] [accessed 3 November 2023]

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view of church interior

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of Sts. Sergius and Bacchus (Abu Serga) in Old Cairo, 4th century"

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 27 April 2022 by Richard Mortel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_of_Sts._Sergius_and_Bacchus_(Abu_Serga)_in_Old_Cairo,_4th_century_(4)_(52087179896).jpg] [accessed 3 November 2023]

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view of church interior - crypt

Scene Description: Source caption: "Saints Sergius and Bacchus Church, Cairo"

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Image Source: digital photograph 17 February 2022 by Onceinawhile [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saints_Sergius_and_Bacchus_Church,_Cairo_2022_10.jpg] [accessed 3 November 2023]

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07618CAI
Church/Chapel: Abu Serga Church / Saints Sergius and Bacchus Church / ϯⲉⲕⲕⲗⲏⲥⲓⲁ ⲛ̀ⲧⲉ ⲛⲓ⳥ ⲥⲉⲣⲅⲓⲟⲥ ⲛⲉⲙ ⲃⲁⲭⲟⲥ ϧⲉⲛ ⲡⲓⲥⲡⲉⲗⲉⲱⲛ
Church Patron Saints: St. Sergius & St. Bacchus
Church Location: Kom Ghorab, Old Cairo, Cairo Governorate 4244001, Egypt
Country Name: Egypt
Location: Cairo
Directions to Site: Located in the Babylon Fortress, Old Cairo. on the E bank of the Nile across from Giza, 4-5 km S of Cairo, about 30 km W of New Cairo City
Ecclesiastic Region: [Coptic Orthodox Diocese of Old Cairo]
Font Location in Church: In the W narthex of the church
Century and Period: 4th century (?), Early Christian
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this font
A basin in the north-east corner of the crypt at Abu Sarga is said to have served as baptistery in the past. The font is described and illustrated in Mary Magdy Anwar's The Evolution of Different Fonts in the Coptic Churches Throughout the Centuries [https://doi.org/10.4000/medievalista.3348] [accessed 3 November 2023]: "Cylindrical forms without stairs appear in the Old Cairo churches as the one situated in the western of the narthex of Abu Sergah church [...], constructed in limestone sculpted in high relief with cross forms, with a pedestal decorated with crosses surrounded by birds and gazelles, placed inside a niche; it dates back to the 4th century." The font consists of a bucket-shaped (rather than cyclindrical) basin decorated with torus-scotia motifs below the upper rim, and a large treflee Greek cross inscribed in a circle on the front side; raised on a cylindrical base wider than the basin, its sides decorated with a busy pattern of similar crosses, foliage and animals all around. A round wooden flat cover with patterned sides is atop.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 30.006525, 31.230613
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 30° 0′ 23.49″ N, 31° 13′ 50.21″ E
UTM: 36R 329344 3320826

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]