Lost for 2,000 years... Could this be the first portrait of Jesus?

“You saw no form of any kind the day the Lord spoke to you at Horeb out of the fire . . . .” Not a portrait because Jesus would not have sat for it. No Jew that believed Jesus was Messiach would have made it.

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“It could also be the first known depiction of an extraterrestrial, too.”

Yeah, waiting for the Chariots of the Gods folks and History Channel/NatGeo to jump on this one - looks like a space helmet on whomever it was.

“What would be the limit on Jesus’ credit card?”

The sky?

http://danielomcclellan.wordpress.com/2011/03/31/peter-thonemann-on-the-lead-codices/

I've never been to Jordan, but I lived in the Republic of Turkey for a few years in the 80’s, and saw lots of reproduction ‘antiques’ in stores, and even in the Ankara Ethnographic Museum. I still have several of the ‘coins’ I bought for reasonable prices there, and they were identical to several that were offered to me in Antakya (ancient Antioch) along with a carved bowl with Saint Peter's initials (S. P.) on it...

There is a GOOD market for souvenirs there, and it's illegal to remove real antiquities from the country. I doubt that Jordan is all that different from Turkey, and it's not all that far from Antakya.

Oh, and the little souvenir shops in Incirlic Village, outside the Air Base, have lots more. Some of them are plates of cast brass, assembled into Koran stands, or hour glasses, or other replica antiquities, as well as many of carved stone. I still have the mermaid plaque here somewhere, but a little deformed Hittite god was left in country, his deformity not something I cared to collect. ;)

I also spent some time in the environs of Diyarbakir. Many of the same souvenirs, but also many different ones, due to their proximity to Nemrut Dag among other ruins. As well as graffiti to the effect that the VIth Roman Legion had been there, carved into the wall surrounding the old town. (I think it was the 6th, anyway. Long ago, and far away, etc.)

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