Christ’s face revealed at Shivta: An Early Byzantine wall painting in the desert of the Holy Land

Emma Maayan-Fanar; Ravit Linn; Yotam Tepper; Guy Bar-Oz

doi:10.15184/aqy.2018.150

Christ’s face revealed at Shivta: An Early Byzantine wall painting in the desert of the Holy Land

Emma Maayan-Fanar, Ravit Linn, Yotam Tepper, Guy Bar-Oz

University of Haifa

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A previously unknown painting of Christ’s face, recently discovered at the Byzantine site of Shivta in the Negev Desert of southern Israel, represents the first pre-iconoclastic baptism-of-Christ scene to be found in the Holy Land.

Original language	American English
Article number	e8
Pages (from-to)	1-5
Number of pages	5
Journal	Antiquity
Volume	92
Issue number	364
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.150
State	Published - 29 Aug 2018

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