Santa Severina

INFORMATION

FontID: 07658SEV
Church/Chapel: Battistero / Oratorio di S. Giovanni Battista
Country Name: Italy
Location: Cortone, Calabria
Directions to Site: Located in the centre of the Crotone province, overlooking the Neto river valley. Cortone is off the N106, NW of Catanzaro, on the Ionic coast
Font Location in Church: The baptistery is annexed to the cathedral
Century and Period: 8th century, Byzantine
Listed in Palol (1967) as the only example of round sunken baptismal font reported in Italy in P. Testini's Archeologia cristiana (Rome. 1958). It is a baptistery in the Byzantine style built in this town in the late 8th or early 9th century, now attached to the 13th-century cathedral; the red limestone baptismal font still exists in its interior and is said to be the original.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (red)
Font Shape: cylindrical (sunken)
Basin Interior Shape: round

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