Tas-Silg / Tas-Silġ nr. Marsaxlokk
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view of church interior - plan
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Image Source: reconstruction plan [original source & copyright unknown] reproduced in www.malta-canada.com/churches-chapels/Trog-SicNorm.htm [accessed 21 August 2008]
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view of church interior - southeast view
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: digital photograph by Alex Hunger, 22 November 2005 [http://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=a312&file=index&do=showpic&pid=17741] [accessed 21 August 2008]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 13713SIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font3?
Church/Chapel: [Early Christian basilica?]
Country Name: Malta
Location: Malta
Directions to Site: Located just N of Marsaxlok, in SE Malta
Font Location in Church: In the main body, behind a marble screen [cf. plan and FontNotes]
Century and Period: 5th - 6th century, Early Christian? / Byzantine?
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Buhagiar (2005) as a "presumed basilica and baptistery at Tas-Silġ […] At the east end was a box-like room with a baptismal font […] The font stood at the back of a marble transenna, or screen, and consisted of a rectangular basin with stuccoed walls, and marble-clad steps".
COORDINATES
UTM: 33S 459357 3965556
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Font Shape: rectangular
Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular
REFERENCES
Buhagiar, Mario, The Late Medieval art and architecture of the Maltese islands, Valletta: Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti, 2005