Santa Severina / Santa Siverina
INFORMATION
Font ID: 07658SEV
Object Type: Baptismal Font3
Font Century and Period/Style: 8th century, Byzantine
Church / Chapel Name: Battistero / Oratorio di S. Giovanni Battista
Font Location in Church: The baptistery is annexed to the cathedral
Church Address: 88832 Santa Severina, KR, Italy
Site Location: Crotone, Calabria, Italy, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the SS107bis, in the centre of the Crotone province, overlooking the Neto river valley. Crortone is off the N106, NW of Catanzaro, on the Ionic coast
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesi di Crotone-Santa Severina
Font Notes:
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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.
COORDINATES
UTM: 33S 665623 4335172
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (red)
Font Shape: sunken font, cylindrical
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, p. 173