Siniyah / Al Seanneeah / Jazīrat as Sīnīyah / جزيرة السينية
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view of basin - interior
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
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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
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"
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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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The National News (UAE), 2022
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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INFORMATION
Font ID: 24958SIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font3?
Font Date: ca. 534-656?
Font Century and Period/Style: 6th - 7th century, Early Christian
Church / Chapel Name: [Early Christian monastery] [archaeological site]
Font Location in Church: In the archaeological site of the monastery
Church Address: Al Seanneeah - جزيرة السينسة - Umm Al Quawain - United Arab Emirates
Site Location: Umm Al-Quwain, United Arab Emirates, Asia
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
Additional Comments: disused font (archaeological site)
Font Notes:
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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
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
COORDINATES
UTM: 40R 362888 2833724
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 25.614722, 55.634444
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 25° 36′ 53″ N, 55° 38′ 4″ E