Corpus-Paul

[Lewis Reich <lbr AT sprynet.com>]

At 12:46 PM 03/23/2000 EST, Grady wrote:

>The crucifix in Herculaneum held up a medicine cabinet.

Would there be any reason to expect the use of a crucifix as a Christian
symbol that early?  My impression was that it was the chi-rho symbol that
was generally used as a Christian symbol during the first several
centuries, and that the crucifix did not achieve prominence until well
after Constantine (who saw a chi-rho rather than a crucifix)?

Lewis Reich