Sidi Daoud nr. Cap Bon / Sidi Daud

INFORMATION

Font ID: 07650DAO
Object Type: Baptistery
Font Century and Period/Style: 6th century, Early Christian
Church / Chapel Name: Early Christian church
Site Location: Grombalia, Nābul, Wilāyat, Tunisia / Tūnis, Africa
Directions to Site: Located on the north-east coast, near the eastern tip of the Cape Bon Peninsula, approx. 80 kms east of Tunis capital
Font Notes:
Palol (1967: 161-162 fn37) refers to it as a poly-lobed baptismal font in the baptistery.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Font Shape: polylobed
Basin Interior Shape: polylobed
Basin Exterior Shape: polylobed

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. 161-162 fn37