Molfetta / Melfétte
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Scene Description: view of the present font
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Image Source: digital photograph 8 November 2025 by Timothy Birt
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Scene Description: view of the present font
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animal - fish
Scene Description: carved on the bottom of the basin interior
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Image Source: digital photograph 8 November 2025 by Timothy Birt
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Scene Description: upper view of the baptismal dont
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Image Source: digital photograph 8 November 2025 by Timothy Birt
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: "Nordansicht der Kirche St. Konrad"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Iustinus Montanus, 2025
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view of stoup
Scene Description: "bénitier en forme d'homme sarrasin dans la Cathédrale Saint-Conrad de Molfetta"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pramzan, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 10 June 2011 by Pramzan
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 26026WMD
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Chiesa di San Corrado / Duomo Vecchio di Molfetta
Font Location in Church: Inside
Church Wikidata: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duomo_di_San_Corrado
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Conrad of Bavaria [aka Corrado di Baviera, Konrad von Bayern]
Church Notes: church started 1150; completed 13thC
Church Address: Via chiesa vecchia, 70056 Molfetta BA, Italy -- Tel.: +39 080 397 1971
Site Location: Bari, Puglia, Italy, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the SS16-SP56 crosroads, 25 km NNW of Bari, on the Adriatic coast. The churh is located in the 'borgo antico', opposite the harbour
Town/City Wikipedia: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molfetta
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in the Catalogo Generale dei Beni Culturali [https://catalogo.cultura.gov.it/detail/HistoricOrArtisticProperty/1600041498] [accessed 5 January 2026]: "acquasantiera da parete - produzione pugliese (sec. XII) [...] 1100?-1199?" Holy-water stoup described in some source as "Acquasantiera detta del Saraceno".
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Timothy Birt for bringing this stoup to our attention
COORDINATES
UTM: 33T 633972 4562887
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 41.206278, 16.597944
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 41° 12′ 22.6″ N, 16° 35′ 52.6″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, lava stone
Font Shape: figure
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Font Height (less Plinth): 80 cm*
Notes on Measurements: Catalogo Generale... [cf. FontNotes]