A silver foil with a written inscription in Latin was found while excavating a cemetery in the town of Nida, a suburb of Frankfurt, Germany. It was contained in a small silver amulet, just over an inch tall, that had been buried around its owner’s neck.
The foil was too poorly preserved to unroll but with the use of CT scans and computer tomography the inscription was revealed. Consisting of eighteen lines, the inscription reads (in part):
[Read more…]Holy, holy, holy! In the name of Jesus Christ, Son of God! …This rescue device(?) protects the person who surrenders to the will of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, since before Jesus Christ bend all knees: the heavenly ones, the earthly and the subterranean, and every tongue confess (to Jesus Christ).