Merida No. 5 / Emerita Augusta / Mérida

Baptismal font or holy-water stoup made of granite and located now [June 2005] just outside the church east wall; it consists of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with deeply-cut ribbed pattern, raised on a plain cylindrical pedestal base; one side of the basin is badly broken, a good chunk of stone missing; the inner well of the basin is round and has a central drain hole, now blocked.