Pamukkale / Hierapolis / Pambuk Kalessi / Tambuk Kalessi
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Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2011 by Montserrat Estela
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Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2011 by Montserrat Estela
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information
Scene Description: the museum where the font resides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montserrat Estela, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2011 by Montserrat Estela
Copyright Instructions: image and Permission received (e-mail of 22 November 2011)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 17741HIE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 5th century, Byzantine
Museum: Hierapolis Örenyeri Müzesi [formerly Hierapolis Archaeology Museum]
Church / Chapel Name: [not in a church]
Church Address: Pamukkale, Denizli, Turj=key
Site Location: Denizli Ili, Turkey, Asia
Directions to Site: Located 18 km N of Denizli
Additional Comments: the Museum was originally the Roman Baths; in 1984 it became the Hierapolis Archaeology Museum -- disused font (in a museum)
Font Notes:
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A roughly hemispherical vessel displayed in the gardens of the Hierapolis Örenyeri Müzesi bears a label that identifies it as a Byzantine baptismal font of the 5th century. It is now raised on a modern pedestal, but it is not known whether it originally had a base.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Monserrat Estela, of www.romanicat.net, for her photographs of this object
COORDINATES
UTM: 35S 686848 4199634
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 37.925086, 29.125898
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 37° 55′ 30.31″ N, 29° 7′ 33.23″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round