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Courtesy of the Jerusalem Archaeology Field unit

Graffiti images cut into the cave’s plaster walls can be interpreted as Christian iconography. On the opposite wall the excavators found another group of carvings. From left, they show three crosses, representing, according to Gibson and Tabor, the three crosses on Golgotha during Jesus’ crucifixion; a T-shaped staff with streamers; and a head, perhaps a reference to John the Baptist’s decapitation.