Kantara / El-Kantara / El Qantara
INFORMATION
Font ID: 07651KAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font3
Font Century and Period/Style: 6th century, Early Christian
Church / Chapel Name: Early Christian basilica
Font Location in Church: [now in Le Bardo museum]
Site Location: Île de Jerba / Djerba, Médenine, Tunisia / Tūnis, Africa
Directions to Site: El-Kantara is in the island of Djerba, located about 65 km E of Gabes
Font Notes:
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Listed in Palol (1967: 162) as a cruciform sunken baptismal font. R.M. Jensen's "Womb, Tomb and Garden: the Symbolism of the North African Baptismal Fonts" (Amer. Acad. of Religion Annual Meeting, 1997: 3) informs that the font is now [i.e., ca. 1997] in the archaeological museum of Le Bardo, a residential suburb W of Tunis.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Font Shape: sunken font, cruciform
Basin Interior 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. 162