Baptistry of Neon
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Creators: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Contributors:
Gabriel Moss
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jun 30, 2016 08:50 PM
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History
An octagonal brick structure erected by Bishop Ursus (late fourth or early fifth century AD) as part of a Basilica (destroyed in 1734). Bishop Neon completed the baptistry at the end of the fifth century AD.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/529754545
44.415617, 12.1973205
- OSM Location of Battistero Neoniano (AD 300 - Present)
- Imagery location of Baptistry of Neon (AD 300 - AD 1453)
- Baptistry of Neon (English, modern)
- Battistero Neoniano (Italian, modern)
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church, monastery
Pleiades
The Baptistry was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1996.
Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, and Gabriel Moss, 'Baptistry of Neon: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2016 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/529754545> [accessed: 21 September 2019]
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