Early Image of Beardless Jesus Found: http://t.co/j5K0t20NFc pic.twitter.com/oTOH1GkgzS — Discovery News (@DNews) October 5, 2014
Posted on 10/10/2014 1:57:19 PM PDT by NYer
Archaeologists have uncovered one of the earliest-known images of Jesus in the town of Cástulo in Andalusia, Spain. The image, engraved on a glass plate known as a paten, shows a beardless, short-haired Jesus.
The archaeologists estimate the 8.6-inch paten is from the fourth century C.E., and they suspect it was used to hold Eucharistic bread. The image shows Jesus in a philosopher's toga, along with two other — also beardless — male figures, whom researchers suspect are Peter and Paul, two of Jesus' apostles. All three of the men are depicted with halos. "The scene takes place in the celestial orb, framed between two palm trees, which in Christian iconography represent immortality, the afterlife, and heaven, among other things," the archaeologists said in a statement.
The paten is the earliest depiction that has been found in Spain, Discovery News reports, and it is "in an excellent state of preservation," with 81 percent of its original contents restored. The paten is now on display at the Archaeological Museum of Linares. --Meghan DeMaria
Early Image of Beardless Jesus Found: http://t.co/j5K0t20NFc pic.twitter.com/oTOH1GkgzS — Discovery News (@DNews) October 5, 2014
Ping!
Beardles?
I thought he was Jewish.
Looks kinda like a beard to me. Besides, the bible said he had a beard.
Maybe engraving a beard clogs up the image too much.
Artist’s choice.
So does the Shroud of Turin.
But it's a nice plate. Too bad it's broken.
Though there is a certain element which haunts this forum who would denounce you as a heretic, cultist, etc. if you disagreed with them on the size, shape or even whether or not he had a beard. Had these people been living in John Calvin's time, they would have you burned at the stake or beheaded, so they have made some progress.
Or maybe they have just lost the power to do it . . .
The early "British Invasion" (of Palestine).
what the hell is ce
My church has a picture of Noah standing outside his ark, and it doesn’t look a thing like him!
Only Catholics paint halo’s and I think that became a practice around 2 or 300 AD
Obviously the author thinks he’s suggesting something by saying he didn’t have a beard, since he put the questionable assertion in the headline; that’s what I’m responding to.
I learned a new word today!
In art history class, many years ago, I saw a Roman encaustic painting that had a beardless Jesus. The professor assumed that he was painted the way a Roman who had never seen him would paint him. Spain was a Roman outpost, so it would not surprise me if the image was also Roman style.
More historical confusion ... Christian Era is supposed to have replace Anno Domini.
ce=ad
How do you feel about the Inquisitions, and the other element on this forum who have openly called for its resumption?
... and among the atheist crowd, it’s ‘Common Era’.
meaningless really
Nobody thinks the image describes how they really looked
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