Shivta No. 2 / Esbeita / H̲orvot Shivta / Horbat Shivta / Sbeita / Shivtah / Sobota / שבטה / شبطا
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Scene Description: the font in the context of the North Church baptistery chapel
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2011, in Avishai Teicher צילום:ד"ר אבישי טייכר [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PikiWiki_Israel_13702_Chapel_and_Baptistry_in_Shivta_Northern_church.jpg] [accessed 5 October 2015]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 20051SHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font3
Church/Chapel: North Church / Basilika Subaita / Basilica of Shivta
Country Name: Israel
Location: HaDarom, Mehoz
Directions to Site: Located 56 km SW of Beersheba, near the Nessana highway
Historical Region: Central Negev
Font Location in Church: In the baptistery chapel of the North church
Date: ca. 612-679?
Century and Period: 7th century, Early Christian
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of the sunken cruciform piscina type [NB: not known whether -or how much of- the height of the font was buried in the ground; perhaps most of it as the outer sides are not finished, unless the unburied outer surfaces were finished in cement or similar]; the font may have been similar to the one in the South Church [cf. Index entry for Shivta No. 1], but this one is much damaged. It is monolithic. One source (Evenari, Shanan and Tadmor, 2nd ., 1982: 166) claims a clay pipe brought water to this font from the general cistern at Shivta.
COORDINATES
UTM: 36R 655814 3417441
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: cruciform
Basin Interior Shape: cruciform
Basin Exterior Shape: cruciform
Drainage Notes: [cf. FontNotes]