Lachania / Λαχανιά
INFORMATION
Font ID: 07724LAC
Object Type: Baptismal Font3
Font Century and Period/Style: Early Christian
Church / Chapel Name: Early Christian church
Church Notes: the present church of Saint Irini dates from the 16thC but was built on the ruins of an early-Christian basilica
Church Address: Lachania, 851 09, Greece
Site Location: Sporádhes, Nísoi Aiyaíou, Greece, Europe
Directions to Site: Lachania is located in the SE area of the island
Historical Region: Rhodes
Font Notes:
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[to be researched] Listed in Palol (1967) as a cylindrical sunken baptismal font of the Early Christian period
COORDINATES
UTM: 35S 577748 3980643
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Font Shape: sunken font, cylindrical
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