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File: Good shepherd 02b close.jpg

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Summary

Close on Jesus as the Good Shepherd. Ceiling - S. Callisto catacomb.

  • Period: early Christian
  • Date: mid 3rd century A.D.
  • Materials: painting in catacomb

The original version was losslessly cropped from [1] The current version was modified for better visualization.

(Obs: This is NOT the image being disputed at en:Talk:Early Christianity/Archive 2#Source of the Good Shepherd image. It is only displayed there as a suggested replacement for the (now deleted) disputed image.)

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One of the oldest representations of Jesus as the Good Shepherd, made around 300 AD.

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current21:41, 15 April 2016Thumbnail for version as of 21:41, 15 April 2016272 × 384 (24 KB)wikimediacommons>Waffles9761Reverted to version as of 16:14, 12 January 2006 (UTC), less grainy

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