Reliquary

6th/7th Century AD – Marble – 17.6x13x15 cm

A Reliquary decorated with a cross. A beautifully crafted chest designed to preserve and display relics for veneration (Relics are physical remains or items associated with saints, martyrs, or Christ e.g., bones, pieces of clothing, or fragments of the True Cross)

Discovered at Machaerus

On Loan From Jordan Archaeological Museum