On my way to Holyhead this morning I listened to an episode of Radio 4's A History of the World in 100 Objects. The subject of this episode was a fourth century mosaic from a Roman villa in Dorset depicting Jesus. - the Hinton  St Mary Mosaic. It is dated circa 350 AD and is presumed to be an early example of such a depiction of Jesus, since prior to 312 (when Constantine was 'converted') very few images of Jesus were created - if any.

The interesting thing about this particular mosaic was tha...