Piran / Pirano

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angel - riding on a dolphin

Scene Description: a winged boy [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfgang Sauber, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph 27 September 2019 by Wolfgang Sauber [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Piran_Baptisterium_-_Taufbecken.jpg] [accessed 3 April 2023]

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view of church exterior and baptistery in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Piran, Kirche St. Georg mit Baptisterium"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Huber, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph August 2009 by Richard Huber [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Piran,_Kirche_St._Georg_mit_Baptisterium.JPG] [accessed 3 April 2023]

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view of church exterior in context - baptisterium

Scene Description: Source caption: "Piran ( Slowenien ). Blick vom Kirchturm der Georgskathedrale - Baptisterium ( 1650)"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfgang Sauber, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph 27 September 2019 by Wolfgang Sauber [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Piran_-_Baptisterium.jpg] [accessed 3 April 2023]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Piran - kościół św. Jerzego"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrzej Otrębski, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph 15 June 2019 by Andrzej Otrębski [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Piran_kosciol_sw_Jerzego_02.jpg] [accessed 3 April 2023]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Piran ( Slowenien ). Georgskathedrale - Baptisterium: Römischer Sarkophag (2.Jhdt.) als Taufbecken"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfgang Sauber, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph 27 September 2019 by Wolfgang Sauber [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Piran_Baptisterium_-_Taufbecken.jpg] [accessed 3 April 2023]

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view of font and cover in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [s.n., s.d.]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Die achteckige Taufkapelle neben der Kirche des hl. Georgs in Piran wurde 1650 errichtet. Ein römischer Sarkophag aus der ersten Hälfte des zweiten Jahrhunderts dient als Taufstein. Die Christusfigur am Kruzifix entstand um 1370."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Isiwal, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph 10 June 2015 by Isiwal [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Piran_baptstry_beside_St_George_church.jpg] [accessed 3 April 2023]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07622PIR
Church/Chapel: župnijska cerkev sv. Jurija v Piranu [Parish Church of St. George]
Church Patron Saints: St. George
Church Location: Adamičeva ulica, 6330 Piran - Pirano, Slovenia -- Tel.: +386 5 673 34 40
Country Name: Slovania
Location: Primorska
Directions to Site: Located off (W) road 111 [aka Strunjan], WNW of Portoroz, at the NW tip of the peninsula that butts out to the Adriatic in the Gulf of Piran, about 25 km SW of Trieste
Font Location in Church: Now in the new baptistery [orig. in the old Romanesque bptry.]
Century and Period: 2nd century [recycled sarcophagus], Roman
A Roman sarcophagus from the first half of the 2nd century was recycled as a baptismal font and is now located in the centre of the new baptistery completed ca. 1650, of which is the only remain [source: www.portoroz.si/cerkve and http://zupnije.rkc.si/piran]. Noted and illustrated in Taufsteine & Taufbecken in Kärnten [https://docplayer.org/80520500-Kaernten-slowenien-friaul-taufsteine-taufbecken.html] [accessed 3 April 2023] as a baptismal font made from a Roman sarcophagus; one side shows a winged young boy riding a dolphin: "Das älteste Element in der Taufkapelle ist ein römischer Grabstein aus dem 1. Jh., der in frühchristlicher Zeit als Taufbecken verwendet wurde. An zwei Seiten des Beckens ist das Relief eines Delfins zu sehen, auf dem ein Bub mit Flügeln sitzt."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 45.529517, 13.568642
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 45° 31′ 46.26″ N, 13° 34′ 7.11″ E
UTM: 33T 388231 5042772

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: rectangular (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: rectangular
Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular

LID INFORMATION

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