The tiny artefact, which measures about 3.6 centimetres long, was unearthed in a 3rd-century Roman grave just outside Frankfurt back in 2018.
could transform our understanding of how Christianity spread under the Roman Empire, experts have said.
Also known as a phylactery, it was probably worn on a ribbon around the man's neck to provide spiritual protection. The breakthrough came in May of this year, when researchers at the Leibniz Center for Archaeology in Mainz used CT scanners to analyze the foil.Ivan Calandra, head of the imaging laboratory at LEIZA, explained the process in a press statement.
Clearly the buried man, who is thought to have been aged 35 to 45, felt his faith so strongly that he took it to the grave with him.There on the foil were 18 lines of Latin text that repeatedly referenced Jesus, as well as St. Titus, a disciple and confidant of St. Paul the Apostle. All knees bow to Jesus Christ: the heavenly The earthly and The subterranean and every tongue Confess ."
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