An 1800-year-old silver amulet with a Latin inscription invoking the name of the Lord Jesus Christ is being hailed as evidence of the early spread of Christianity. The amulet was discovered near Frankfurt, Germany under the chin of a man buried in a tomb dating to AD 230–270. Scholars took a CT scan of the amulet, which allowed them to digitally unroll it revealing the following inscription:
(In the name?) of Saint Titus.
Holy, holy, holy!
In the name of Jesus Christ, Son of God!
The Lord of the world
resists with [strengths?]
all attacks(?)/setbacks(?).
The God(?) grants
entry to well-being.
May this means of salvation(?) protect
the man who
surrenders himself to the will
of the Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God,
since before Jesus Christ
every knee bows: those in heaven, those on earth
and those
under the earth, and every tongue
confesses (Jesus Christ).
Normally, amulets from this period contain inscriptions with a mixture of different faiths, invoking various gods to ward off evil. The Frankfurt amulet’s inscription is purely Christian, and is evidence that Christianity had spread to Germany by the middle of the third century.
Source: https://frankfurt.de/aktuelle-meldung/meldungen/frankfurter-silberinschrift/
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