Oued Ramel

INFORMATION

Font ID: 07716OUE
Object Type: Baptismal Font3
Font Century and Period/Style: Early Christian
Church / Chapel Name: Early Christian basilica
Church Address: Oued Ramel, Tunisia
Site Location: El Kef, Tunisia / Tūnis, Africa
Directions to Site: site in Getty TGN [ID: 8722954] -- Located S of road C99, W of ther P3, 15-20 km W of Kairouan, about 55 km W of Sousse
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]

COORDINATES

UTM: 32S 582658 3950536

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Font Shape: sunken font, 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, p. 172 fn48