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 26, 2024 02:53 AM
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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
44.4156114837, 12.1973287327
- Representative Locations:
- OSM Location of Battistero Neoniano (AD 300 - Present) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Imagery location of Baptistry of Neon (AD 300 - AD 1453) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Baptistry of Neon (English, modern)
- Battistero Neoniano (Italian, modern)
- Baptistry of Neon located at Ravenna (AD 300 - AD 640)
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church, monastery (deprecated)
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, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/529754545> [accessed: 24 November 2024]
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