Ancient paintingsĪnother painting found some years ago at Shivta, in the southernmost of its three ruined churches, shows Christ at his transfiguration - another key event described in the Christian gospels, which are thought to have been written in the first century after his death. The Christian ruins of the ancient desert city are thought to date from between the fourth and sixth century A.D. The heavily eroded painting is now thought to be the oldest representation of Jesus Christ found so far in Israel, and one of the very few images from that time that shows details of his face. The results of their find in 2017 were recently published in the journal Antiquity. Maayan-Fanar called her husband, Dror Maayan, the photographer for the Israeli academic team working at Shivta, to take pictures of the painting on the stones of the baptistery ceiling.
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