Belmont / Deir Belmend / Valmont
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10255BEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Object Details: capital, Byzantine
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Balamand [aka Belmon] Monastery
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Balamand, Koura, Lebanon
Site Location: Koura, Lebanon, Middle East
Directions to Site: Located off highway 51 [Sea Hwy], about 10 km SW of Tripoli, between Qalamoun (N) and Qalhat/Kalhat (S)
Historical Region: Tripolitania
Additional Comments: recycled font: the base is an upturned Byzantine capital
Font Notes:
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In his work on the Crusaders' architecture (1925-1928) Enlart mentions a baptismal font at this abbey church, a font consisting of a hemispherical basin raised on an inverted Byzantine capital.
COORDINATES
UTM: 36S 755595 3806495
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 34.3683, 35.7794
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 34° 22′ 5.88″ N, 35° 46′ 45.84″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
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. 48, 163 and pl. 60, fig. 189