Thurburbo maius / Thurburbo majus / Thuburbus majus nr. Carthage

INFORMATION

FontID: 07717THU

Church/Chapel: Early Christian church

Country Name: Tunisia / Tūnis

Location: Tūnis, Wilāyat

Century and Period: 5th - 8th century, Early Christian

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

[to be researched] Listed in Palol (1967: 172 fn48); listed in Jensen (1997: unpaged) as a cruciform sunken font of the Early Christian period

COORDINATES

UTM: 32S 580976 4028972

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