{"id":29319,"date":"2021-12-23T08:58:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T07:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livelystones.ng\/?p=29319"},"modified":"2021-12-23T08:58:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T07:58:20","slug":"ancient-christian-ring-recovered-from-shipwreck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livelystones.ng\/ancient-christian-ring-recovered-from-shipwreck\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Christian ring recovered from shipwreck"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h1 data-test-locator=\"headline\"><strong>Ancient Christian ring recovered from shipwreck<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This centuries-old ring was found from a shipwreck<\/p>\n<p>Location: Caesarea, Israel<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Good Shepherd&#8217; bears a depiction of Jesus as a shepherd<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s thought to date back to the mid-third century<\/p>\n<p>(SOUNDBITE) (English) ROBERT KOOL, HEAD OF COIN DEPARTMENT AT ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY, SAYING:&#8221;So what we see depicted on the gemstone, engraved on the gemstone is an image of &#8216; The Good Shepherd.&#8217; Now, the Good Shepherd was one of the earliest Christian symbols used by the Christian community in the East.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The ring was found near the ancient port of Caesarea<\/p>\n<p>along with hundreds of coins and Roman-era figurines<\/p>\n<p>The haul came from hulls of two sunken ships<\/p>\n<p>which date back six and 17 centuries<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Share This<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancient Christian ring recovered from shipwreck &nbsp; This centuries-old ring was found from a shipwreck Location: Caesarea, Israel The &#8216;Good Shepherd&#8217; bears a depiction of Jesus as a shepherd It&#8217;s thought to date back to the mid-third century (SOUNDBITE) (English) ROBERT KOOL, HEAD OF COIN DEPARTMENT AT ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY, SAYING:&#8221;So what we see depicted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":29320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1680],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/livelystones.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Ancient-Christian-ring-recovered-from-shipwreck.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelystones.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelystones.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelystones.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelystones.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelystones.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/livelystones.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29321,"href":"https:\/\/livelystones.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29319\/revisions\/29321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelystones.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelystones.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelystones.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelystones.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}