Emmaus / Amwas / Imwas

INFORMATION

Font ID: 07657EMM
Object Type: Baptismal Font3
Font Century and Period/Style: 6th century, Early Christian
Cognate Fonts: Vega del Mar (Spain)
Church / Chapel Name: Early Christian basilica
Site Location: Israel?, Middle East
Directions to Site: Near the modern town on Amwas or Imwas, 25 km WNW of Jerusalem
Font Notes:
Described in Palol (1967: 173) as a baptismal font of a circular shape with an attached smaller piscina, like the one at Vega del Mar, Spain. Rapuano [cf. Author notes below] mentions two basilicas, both of the 6th century, and a single baptistery.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Font Shape: sunken font, round

REFERENCES

  • Bagatti, Bellarmino, "Edifici cristiani nella regione del Nebo", 13 (1936), Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana, 1936, pp. 101-142; 1-2, 101ff
  • 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