Geneva No. 1 / Genava / Genèva, / Geneve / Genève / Genevra / Genf
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Image and permission received (e-mail of 30 May 2012)
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view of font - upper view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by Natasha Hathaway
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view of basin - interior
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by Natasha Hathaway
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view of church exterior - porch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Σπάρτακος, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 November 2013 by Σπάρτακος [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Geneva_saint_peter.JPG] [accessed 21 April 2014]
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view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Σπάρτακος, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 November 2013 by Σπάρτακος [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Geneva_saint_peter_2.JPG] [accessed 21 April 2014]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 18376GEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font3
Font Century and Period/Style: 4th - 6th century, Early Christian
Church / Chapel Name: Cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Genève
Font Location in Church: in the grounds of the archaeological site, by the present cathedral building
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: the archaeological site is documented on the its own web site [www.site-archeologique.ch/contenu.php?id-node=41] [accessed 21 April 2014]
Church Address: Cour Saint-Pierre 6, CH - 1204 Geneva, Switzerland -- Tel.: +41 (0) 22 311 75 74
Site Location: Geneva / Genève, Switzerland, Europe
Directions to Site: Located by the side of the cathedral building
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Genève
Font Notes:
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Bonnet (2012) details the several baptisteries that succeeded one another in this cathedral, starting with the first one, in the site corresponding to the extension of the south sacristy of the present cathedral building; the date of the first baptistery is suggested for the secon half of the 4th century. This same source reports on fifty years of excavations and notes a second baptistery in the 5th century, a third in the 6th, a fourth between the 6th and 7th centuries, and a last one between the 7th and the 8th centuries.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Natasha Hathaway for her photographs of one of the baptistery fonts here
COORDINATES
UTM: 32T 279982 5120318
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 46.20086, 6.148193
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 46° 12′ 3.1″ N, 6° 8′ 53.5″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
REFERENCES
- Bonnet, Charles, Les fouilles de la cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Genève: le centre urbain de la protohistoire jusqu'au début de la christianisation, Genève: Société d'histoire et d'archéologie de Genève, 2012, [throughout]