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The enormous marble basin set up as a baptismal font in the Aghia Maria Church, Ephesus. |
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The Aghia Maria (Church of the Virgin)
Part 2
The colossal marble basin was discovered in the Upper Agora of Ephesus by the British architect and archaeologist John Turtle Wood (1821-1890) who was the first to excavate Ephesus 1863-1874. Made of a single piece of stone, it has a diameter of 15 feet (457.2 cm), and the water was 9 inches (22.8 cm) deep at the lowest point (see drawing below). A water-pipe and the remains of a reservoir were found nearby, but there was no hole in the centre, as there would have been in a fountain. |
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One of a number of marble slabs decorated with crosses
and other Christian symbols in the Aghia Maria Church. |
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The colossal marble basin in the Aghia Maria Church. |
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A drawing of the marble basin by John Turtle Wood.
Image source: John Turtle Wood, Discoveries at Ephesus, page 32.
Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1877. |
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The baptismal pool in the octagonal baptistry on the north side of the church. 6th - 7th century AD. |
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A marble doorframe in the Aghia Maria Church. |
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