Tarablus / Ṭarāblus / Tarabulus / Ṭarābulus / Trablus / Tripoli / طرابلس

INFORMATION

Font ID: 10253TRI
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Unknown
Site Location: Ṭarābulus, Libya, Africa
Directions to Site: Located off the coastal road
Historical Region: Tripolitania
Additional Comments: recycled stoup: former mortar may have been used as stoup
Font Notes:
Enlart (1925-1928, vol. 1: 163-164 fn1 and pl. 189) describes and illustrates a marble mortar shaped like a romanesque capital, found in Tripoli, which may have been used as holy-water stoup like several others consisting of a former capital raised on a short pedestal base (Enlart mentions those at Wast, near Boulogne, the one at Notre-Dame de Châlons, the one at Saint-André de Sorède, and one more at Saint-Barnard de Romans, in Drôme, all of them in France -- As Enlart points out (ibid. fn2), mortars were used at times as holy-water stoups since they came already shaped for the function)

COORDINATES

UTM: 33S 330821 3640235

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

  • Enlart, Camille, Les monuments des croisés dans le royaume de Jérusalem: architecture religieuse et civile, Paris: Librarie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1925-1928, vol. 1: p. 163, 164 fn1-2 and album 1, pl. 189