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Nice-Cimiez: Early Christian Baptistry
Christian Baptistry built in Roman Bathhouse at Nice (photo: Athena Review).
In
the first decades of the 4th century AD, when Christianity became the
official religion of the Roman Empire, an early Christian basilica was
built in a portion of the Women's (East) Bath at Nice-Cimiez. One room
near the present site of the archaeological museum served as a
Baptistry, shown in this view.
Portions of a low vaulted
hypocaust from the earlier Baths structure are visible at right, along
with remains of columns which supported the roof of the Baptistry.
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