Archaeologists from the University of Innsbruck excavating the site of an early Christian church have discovered a marble shrine containing a reliquary box depicting Moses receiving the Ten Commandments.

The shrine contained a heavily fragmented 1,500-year-old ivory box, or pyx, richly decorated with Christian motifs, according to a press release from the Austrian university.

“We know of around 40 ivory boxes of this kind worldwide and, as far as I know, the last time one of these was found during excavations was around 100 years ago — the few pyxes that exist are either preserved in cathedral treasures or exhibited in museums,” lead archaeologist Gerald Grabherr said.

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