Elche / Elx / Ilice / Ilici Augusta/ La Alcudia de Elche

INFORMATION

Font ID: 21276ELC
Object Type: Baptistery?
Font Century and Period/Style: 4th - 5th century, Early Christian
Church / Chapel Name: Basilica de Elche / Capilla de Elche / Baptisterio de Elche
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Address: Carretera de Dolores, km 2, 03290 Elche, Spain
Site Location: Alicante, Comunidad Valenciana / Comunitat Valenciana, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: The archaeological site is located off the CV-655, 2 km from Elche / Elx, on the road from Elche to Dolores
Font Notes:
Listed in Khatchatrian (182) as a possible baptistery in Elche / Elx, with references to Palol and Puig de Cadafalch. Briefly noted in Otero Pedrayo's Una historia del arte universal (Madrid: Galaxia, 2004 : 334) as an aunthentic Byzantine chapel. The Fundación Universitaria de Investigación Arqueológica L'Alcúdia [www.laalcudia.ua.es/bibliografia.jsp] [accessed 20 June 2017] has a bibliography of works related to the Alcudia site, from its Iberian (?) origin, as well as a few basic notes and photographs of the archaeological site of the basilica [www.laalcudia.ua.es/visita_yacimiento2_en.jsp#ibericas] [accessed 20 June 2017]. Another bibliography of works related to the early Christian episcopal see at Elche/Ilici is available in Academia .edu [www.academia.edu/Documents/in/Ilici] [accessed 20 June 2017]. There is mention of a "baptisterio de cruz griega" in Baños de la Reina de Calpe / Banys de la Reina de Calp, in Alicante / Alacant in a bibliography of related works at the Fundación site [cf. supra] [http://alicante.academia.edu/Departments/FUNDACIÓN_ARQUEOLÓGICA_L_ALCÚDIA_DE_ELCHE/Documents] [accessed 20 June 2017].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30S 701677 4234922
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 38.2397, -0.695556
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 38° 14′ 22.92″ N, 0° 41′ 44″ W

REFERENCES

  • Khatchatrian, Armen, Origine et typologie des baptistères paléochrétiens, Mulhouse: Centre de Culture Chrétienne, 1982, p. 85