Herodium No. 1 / Herodion / Jabal al-Fureidis / Lower Herodium / هيروديون / הרודיון /

Baptismal font reported in The Churches of Herodium (1995) by Ehud Netzer, Rivka Birger-Calderon and Ayala Feller [http://herodium.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/nezer/Netzer_The_Churches_of_Herodium.pdf] [accessed 30 September 2022] inside a ca. 2 x 2 m. baptistery room in the central church of the three in Herodium: "In its center stood the baptismal font. hewn out of a single stone, shaped like the drum of a column, 1.1 m in diameter and 85 cm high. The font was quatrefoil and had a square recess a the bottom. A small cross was engraved in the wall of the font The mosaic floor of the baptistery, around the font, had a combination of flowers and geometrical shapes, and a cruciform decoration at the front of the font. The baptistery had no door, but opened to the souther aisle". This source also points out that there was a baptismal font in each of the three churches of Herodium. Noted and illustrated in The Israel Museum, Jerusalem [https://www.imj.org.il/en/collections/198248] [accessed 30 September 2022]: "Baptismal font hewn in stone in the shape of a cross. Central church at Herodium. 6th century CE. Stone. H: 80; Diam: 100 cm"