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Scene Description: Source caption: "Мозаик во Плаошник - Охрид"

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of Sveti Kliment. Ancient baptistry"

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Крстилница во археолошки локалитет Плаошник, Охрид, Македонија"

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Plaošnik, Ohrid, Macedonia"

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Охрид во 2007"

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24868PLA
Church/Chapel: [Early Christian baptistery]
Church Location: 4Q7R+F5X, Kuzman Kapidan, Ohrid 6000, North Macedonia
Country Name: North Macedonia
Location: Southwestern / Југозападен Регион
Directions to Site: Located off (W) road P1301, on the NE shore of Ohrid lake, SW of Ohrid and in its municipality
Century and Period: 4th - 6th century, Early Christian
Baptismal font of the type that has a sunken piscina with a low above the ground raised top; the interior appears roughly round, with access stairs; the outer shape is multilobed (eight lobes) [NB: a few sources have used the term "polyconchal" to describe the multilobed / polylobed outer shape of this font]. The area of the baptistery interior appears quadrangular, its ground covered in mosaics. The baptistery is said to have become abandoned/disused when the basilica Church of Saints Clement and Panteleimon was built on the site in the late-9th century; the church itself became a mosque in the 15th century [NB: for the Church of of Saints Clement and Panteleimon cf. BSI entry for Plaosnik No. 2]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 41.112736, 20.791244
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 41° 6′ 45.85″ N, 20° 47′ 28.48″ E
UTM: 34T 482473 4551293