Acre No. 1 / ʻAkko / Acca / Accho / Acco / Ace / Akko / St. John of Acre / St-Jean d'Acre

In his commissioned trip to the Holy Land ca. 1925 Enlart (1925-1928) relates how he had gone into one of the cellars of the old ruined Church of St. Andrew, in Acre, a cellar used as a private stable or pigsty [="Une de ces caves, qui sert d'écurie à un particulier"]; in this cellar he found among the debris, the basin of a holy-stoup that could be Romanesque; the stoup is described as looking roughly like a capital and dating probably to the 12th century. Enlart (ibid.) made a drawing of the object; it shows a capital square at the top, with large folds below and ending in a thick torus with a grading below that would have fitted a round pedestal. [NB: we have found no other information on this object after Enlart's reference]. [cf. Index entry for Acre No. 2 for another stoup (?) probably of the same period from this location]