Posted on 12/07/2022 8:00:20 AM PST by Red Badger
Thanks Red Badger.
“Given such riches, experts deduced the buried woman must have been highly wealthy. She was likely a leader in the Christian community and may have been one of the earliest women to obtain a highly ranked status in the church, the archaeologists said, according to the outlet.”
Nonsense wishful thinking from people letting their fantasies and biases affect their thinking. More likely she was just a noblewoman, not a “leader in the Christian community”, since women were not allowed to be leaders in the Christian community (outside of convents) until rather recently.
Looks possibly like a woman on the left, a man on the right, and an infant between them. So if that’s the case I expect the coins/medallions depict Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus in a nativity scene.
Further excavations and explanations are being held in abeyance until Phil Harding arrives on the site.
Or it could the emperor, empress and their child...hard to make out the lettering on the coin.
Maybe, but I think the figure on the left is a woman, and if it were an Emperor, the Emperor should be the leftmost figure, so the woman would be on the right. But in nativity scenes, Mary is often given the place of prominence over Joseph.
Yes, one of the medallions is a nativity scene.
I think the other is the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist.
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