Tuesday, September 16, 2008

The Chi-Rho Amulet is Fake

A unique Roman silver cross. The earliest Christian artifact found in Britain. Can it be fake? Yes, many consider it to be so.

And amidst this fracas it was sent for testing.

The Chi-Rho Amulet was found in an early fifth century cemetery in Somerset. It was found in the year 1990. It is regarded as a very important evidence of Christianity in Roman Britain.

A new technique known as ‘inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry’ may help in this case. This technique will determine the exact metallurgical make-up of the amulet. This data will then be compared with data held on other Roman silver. Only then it will be clear if it is fake or not.

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