Oued Ramel

INFORMATION

FontID: 07716OUE

Church/Chapel: Early Christian basilica

Country Name: Tunisia / Tūnis

Location: El Kef

Century and Period: , Early Christian

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Listed in Palol (1967: 172 fn48) [to be researched] -- Also listed in Jensen (1997: unpaged and fig. 11) as a cruciform font -- Ornamented with beautiful mosaics a/p Gauckler [see Author Notes below]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Font Shape: cruciform

REFERENCES

Jensen, Robin Margaret, "Womb, Tomb, and Garden: The Symbolism of North African Baptismal Fonts", November 1997, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting [http://divinity.library.vanderbilt.edu/burns/chroma], 1997

Palol, Pedro de, Arqueología cristiana de la España romana: siglos IV a VI, Madrid, Valladolid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Instituto Enrique Flórez, 1967