Il battistero di Tas-silg a Malta: vecchie e nuove acquisizioni

Marco Sannazaro

Il battistero di Tas-silg a Malta: vecchie e nuove acquisizioni

Translated title of the contribution: The TAS-Silg baptistery in Malta: old and new acquisitions

Marco Sannazaro

Faculty of Arts and Philosophy

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Abstract

In the last twenty years, the renewal of archaeological investigations in the sacred area of Tas-Silg in Malta, already investigated in 1963-70, has granted new data about the church and the baptistery that were erected on the remains of the sanctuary complex of prehistoric origin. The intervention focuses on the baptismal area, on the peculiarities of the opus sectile of the floor, on the font and the IV-VII century coins dropped inside, according to a ritual practice attested also elsewhere.

Translated title of the contribution	The TAS-Silg baptistery in Malta: old and new acquisitions
Original language	Italian
Title of host publication	Studi in memoria di Fabiola Ardizzone, 2. Scavi, Topografia e Archeologia del Paesaggio
Publisher	Antipodes
Pages	183-202
Number of pages	20
ISBN (Print)	978-88-99751-42-5
Publication status	Published - 2018

Keywords

Baptistery
Battistero
Bizantino
Byzantine
Malta

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Il battistero di Tas-silg a Malta: vecchie e nuove acquisizioni

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