Gerasa / El Geras / Gerasa Palaestinae / Jarash / Jarosh / Jerash / Gerasli
INFORMATION
Font ID: 07652GER
Object Type: Baptismal Font3
Font Century and Period/Style: Early Christian
Site Location: Irbid, Jordan, Middle East
Directions to Site: Located in the mountains of Gilead
Historical Region: Decapolis, Palestine
Font Notes:
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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: sunken font, cruciform, variant
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. 173