I was on the team that excavated that baptistery. There was a 5th-cent immersion font. In a later period among the tombs buried ad sanctos outside the apse was an infant, its head was positioned against the building.
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The Byzantine Legacy
Church ruins at Amorium in Phrygia (modern Hisar/Afyonkarahisar), the capital and headquarters of the Anatolic theme sacked by the Arabs in 838
In Late Antique, it was an aisled basilica with a baptistery, transformed in the Middle Byzantine era into a domed cross basilica
Photos taken today
In Late Antique, it was an aisled basilica with a baptistery, transformed in the Middle Byzantine era into a domed cross basilica
Photos taken today
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