Kantara / El-Kantara / El Qantara

INFORMATION

FontID: 07651KAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font3
Church/Chapel: Early Christian basilica
Country Name: Tunisia / Tūnis
Location: Île de Jerba / Djerba, Médenine
Directions to Site: El-Kantara is in the island of Djerba, located about 65 km E of Gabes
Font Location in Church: [now in Le Bardo museum]
Century and Period: 6th century, Early Christian
Font Notes:
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: cruciform (sunken)
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