Show RELICS OF FIRST CENTURY portraits of christ and the apostles apostle dug up from the ruins ruin of antioch Ant loch P portraits 0 of christ and the apostles which it Is believed may be authentic are on an old chalice dug up from the cu ruins ins of antioch and now in the possession of a firm of art dealers in this city it became known last night the chalice according to tile the dealers ers came directly to them from the hands bands of the excavators excava tors in 1910 it can be dated with certainty to the second halt half of the first century A D says dr gustavus A elsen eisen the az ar che who Is now in this country and who has made a preliminary re port upon it in the american of it wits was found by arabs digging a well in antioch Ant loch syria at the depth of many meters they came upon underground der ground chambers one of which contained the treasure it Is probable say experts that the chalice Is a replica of the cathedral erected in antioch by constantine the great after his removal of the capital of his empire to constantinople this antioch church was intended to be the center of christian worship in the east and remained standing until the year when during an assemblage of christians the ity city was leveled by an earthquake so disastrous aisa that one building could not be distinguished from another among the ruins new york times |