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The earliest surviving structure that was used as a baptistry is the tomb-like baptistry at Dura-Europas.

Another baptistery of the earliest times has been excavated at Aquileia.

Ruins of an early baptistery have also been found at Salona.

At Ravenna exist two famous baptisteries encrusted with fine mosaics, one of them built in the middle of the 5th century, and the other in the 6th.

To the latter date also belongs a large baptistery decorated with mosaics at Naples.