Siniyah / Al Seanneeah / Jazīrat as Sīnīyah / جزيرة السينية

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view of basin - interior

the running commentary by Professor Timothy Power pointed out that residue analyses carried out on the basin interior surfaces showed it was salt water that was contained in the cistern/font, which would suggest it was used for baptisms

Scene Description: the running commentary by Professor Timothy Power pointed out that residue analyses carried out on the basin interior surfaces showed it was salt water that was contained in the cistern/font, which would suggest it was used for baptisms

Image Source: image captured from a video by The National News (UAE) [https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/heritage/2022/11/03/ancient-christian-monastery-discovered-in-umm-al-quwain/] [accessed 28 September 2023]

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view of church exterior in context

Source caption: "A drone shot of the monastery, including a single-aisled church, refectory, cistern, storeroom and kitchen. The nearby courtyard building, lower right, may be an abbot’s house or ‘bishop’s palace.’ Photo: Umm Al Quwain's Department of Tourism and Archaeology"

Scene Description: Source caption: "A drone shot of the monastery, including a single-aisled church, refectory, cistern, storeroom and kitchen. The nearby courtyard building, lower right, may be an abbot’s house or ‘bishop’s palace.’ Photo: Umm Al Quwain's Department of Tourism and Archaeology"

Image Source: digital photograph 2022 by Umm Al Quwain's Department of Tourism and Archaeology [https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/heritage/2022/11/03/ancient-christian-monastery-discovered-in-umm-al-quwain/] [accessed 28 September 2023]

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view of font in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24958SIN

Object Type: Baptismal Font3?

Church/Chapel: [Early Christian monastery] [archaeological site]

Church Location: Al Seanneeah - جزيرة السينسة - Umm Al Quawain - United Arab Emirates

Country Name: United Arab Emirates

Location: Umm Al-Quwain

Directions to Site: The Siniyah island is located across (E) from Umm Al-Quwain, across and N of highway E11, in the emirate of Umm Al-Quwain

Font Location in Church: In the archaeological site of the monastery

Date: ca. 534-656?

Century and Period: 6th - 7th century, Early Christian

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it

Font Notes: Click to view

A report by John Dennehy in the 3 November 2022 edition of The National News (UAE), 'Ancient Christian monastery discovered in Umm Al Quwain' [https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/heritage/2022/11/03/ancient-christian-monastery-discovered-in-umm-al-quwain/] [accessed 28 September 2023] informs of the discovery and excavations of an ancient monastery under the Sinniyah Archaeology Project, a collaboration between the Umm Al Quwain Department of Tourism and Archaeology, the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University in New York and the Italian Archaeological Mission in Umm Al Quwain, and the leadership of Professor Timothy Power of the UAE University. "The monastery encompassed a cluster of buildings including a kitchen, storerooms and cistern for collecting drinking water and an oven for communion bread. Adjacent is an abbot’s house or 'bishop’s palace' [...] A large cistern found close to the altar could have potentially been used for baptisms. It is believed they celebrated mass at the single-aisle church

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 25.614722, 55.634444

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 25° 36′ 53″ N, 55° 38′ 4″ E

UTM: 40R 362888 2833724