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Token with The Nativity, Syria-Palestine, 6th-7th century CE, Terracotta, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Bequest of Dan Barag, Jerusalem (Courtesy Eli Posner)
A unique Byzantine-era blessing token featuring baby Jesus was recently unveiled by the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, harking back to a time before a pandemic kept pilgrims from thronging Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity on Christmas.
Eulogia, Greek for blessed objects, were small souvenirs collected by early Christians on their pilgrimages to the Holy Land.
The token depicts a nativity scene, with the baby Jesus at its center in a crib, a bull and a donkey above him. It likely belonged to a pilgrim who visited Bethlehem in the 6th or 7th century CE, given the architectural style of the Church of the Nativity depicted on the eulogium, said Morag Wilhelm, assistant curator of Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine archeology at ....

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