Kuttekoven No. 2 / Cuttinchoven

A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 10 October 2023) informs that the remains of a Roman villa were discovered in 1973 at the site of the church; during the excavation, a stoup or small baptismal font made from a fragment of a Roman capital was unearthed. Reference : Smeesters, 1973 : “Kuttekoven, Romeinse bouwresten”, in Archeologie, 1973-2, 70". A further communication by Pol Herman (e-mail of 18 February 2024) informs that Igor Van Den Vonder, collections management coordinator of the Gallo-Romeins Museum of Tongeren, where the piece is housed, has provided a photograph of the same. For a report of the excavation in which the object was found see Steenhoudt and Smeets (2015). [NB: the object resembles the basin of a baptismal font, with plain sides and a decorative pattern on the underbowl consisting of pointed arch-heads; the significant damage to the side of the basin would be consistent with the sort caused by the split of the stone around a metal anchorage for a font cover].