Skhira / La Skhira / La Cekhira
INFORMATION
Font ID: 07654SKH
Object Type: Baptismal Font3
Font Century and Period/Style: Early Christian
Cognate Fonts: Vega del Mar (Spain)
Church / Chapel Name: Early Christian basilica
Site Location: Ṣafāqis, Wilāyat, Tunisia / Tūnis, Africa
Directions to Site: Located in the Gulf of Gabes
Font Notes:
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[to be researched] Listed in Palol (1967: 173 fn52) as a baptismal font with a plan similar to the one at Vega del Mar [cf. Index entry].
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Font Shape: sunken font, 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. 173 fn52