Thurburbo maius / Thurburbo majus / Thuburbus majus nr. Carthage
INFORMATION
Font ID: 07717THU
Object Type: Baptismal Font3
Font Century and Period/Style: 5th - 8th century, Early Christian
Church / Chapel Name: Early Christian church
Site Location: Tūnis, Wilāyat, Tunisia / Tūnis, Africa
Font Notes:
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[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: 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