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The Baptistery at Kepos in Melos
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 October 2013
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In April 1913, while at Melos, I took the opportunity of visiting the two churches of Kepos on the south side of the island at the South-eastern extremity of Mount Elias. The northern of these churches has in recent years been restored, and an account of it with a plan, has been published by Messrs. Fletcher and Kitson in the Annual of 1895–6. This plan, however, was made before the church was restored and before the collapse of the dome which made that restoration necessary. There are therefore certain points which need revision in view of the present condition of the church, and there are others which require an altogether more detailed treatment.
The restoration has been carried out comparatively well. The main structure has been retained without serious alteration, but the paintings which were inside the dome are no longer in position and at present lie on the floor of the church in fourteen fragments.
In the apse of the church is a cruciform font built up of slabs set on edge, of which separate plans are given in the article referred to above. The plans there given, however, do not correspond in all details with the font; these details can be seen from the plan and section given here (Figs. 1, 2), made from measurements which I took on the spot. Messrs. Fletcher and Kitson say that ‘on three sides are seats, on the fourth towards the door of the church, are two steps down, and in the middle a well 2 ft. square.’
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page 118 note 1 B.S.A. ii. pp. 156–161. A plan, section and photograph are given also by Lambakis, , Δελτίον τῆς Χριστ. Ἀρχ. Ἑταιρείας, vii. 1906, pp. 34Google Scholarsqq.
page 118 note 2 In B.S.A. ii. p. 159, they are described as being in position in the dome.
page 121 note 1 Lambakis (op. cit. p. 37) recognises that this structure is not an altar; he calls it an ambo.
page 121 note 2 Note in B.S.A. ii. p. 168.
page 121 note 3 J.H.S. xvi. p. 352 and xvii. p. 130 and plan on Pl. V. It has since been destroyed.
page 121 note 4 For the use of this pillar, see Dawkins, p. 123 below.
page 121 note 5 De eccl. officiis, ii. 25, 4, quoted by Bosanquet, in B.S.A. ii. p. 168.Google Scholar The floor of the font would count as the seventh step. The fourth step would be the floor of the font approached from two opposite sides by three steps, the total thus making seven, and so the fourth could quite well be called the seventh, though it seems a curiously obscure passage.