Gerasa / El Geras / Gerasa Palaestinae / Jarash / Jarosh / Jerash / Gerasli

INFORMATION

FontID: 07652GER

Country Name: Jordan

Location: Irbid

Directions to Site: Located in the mountains of Gilead

Historical Region: Decapolis, Palestine

Century and Period: , Early Christian

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Listed in Palol (1967: 173) as a baptismal font of the Early Christian period shaped as a variant of the cruciform.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Font Shape: cruciform variant (sunken)

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