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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marko, post: 825485, member: 210&quot;]Could that lion cameo be biblical?&nbsp; Daniel comes to mind....and the anchor is a Christian symbol.&nbsp; And here is this, not that this would be Jesus in the cameo, but perhaps an allegorical representation of Christianity.</p><p><br /></p><p>The anchor became a key Christian symbol during the period of Roman persecution. As Michael Card observes in his recent album, Soul Anchor: &quot;The first century symbol wasn&#039;t the cross; it was the anchor. If I&#039;m a first century Christian and I&#039;m hiding in the catacombs and three of my best friends have just been thrown to the lions or burned at the stake, or crucified and set ablaze as torches at one of [Emperor] Nero&#039;s garden parties, the symbol that most encourages me in my faith is the anchor. When I see it, I&#039;m reminded that Jesus is my anchor.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><i>Christ Treading on a Lion</i></p><p><br /></p><p>But in other scriptures, as interpreted by Christian writers, the lion represents the enemy that Christ will vanquish. For example, Psalm 90(91):13 says, &quot;thou shalt walk upon the asp and the basilisk: and thou shalt trample under foot the lion and the dragon.&quot; This leads to an early iconographic type in which Christ does just that (<a href="https://www.christianiconography.info/Edited%20in%202013/Italy/christLionSerpent.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.christianiconography.info/Edited%20in%202013/Italy/christLionSerpent.html" rel="nofollow">example</a>). From the earliest example in 5th-century Ravenna this type spread throughout medieval Europe well into the second millenium (<a href="https://www.christianiconography.info/about.html#EBSmith" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.christianiconography.info/about.html#EBSmith" rel="nofollow">E. B Smith</a>, 153-55).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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