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Temes early Christian sarcophagus

Carballedo, Chantada, Lugo

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Temes early Christian sarcophagus

Curiosity · Carballedo, Chantada, Lugo

Image of Carballedo, not of the place itself.

A sarcophagus lid carved around 315-325 in Pentelic marble from Athens by a Roman workshop, with the Magi, Adam and Eve and the cycle of Jonah; it is one of the earliest traces of Christianity in Galicia.

Photo: José Antonio Gil Martínez from Vigo, Spain (CC BY 2.0)

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