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What object from the Vatican Pio-Christian Museum was used as the image for the 2004 Vatican Christmas stamp?

   a stain-glass window
   a painting
   a statue
   a sarcophagus

Your answer was: a sarcophagus.
You are correct!!


Answer: The object image from the Vatican Pio-Christian Museum that was used for the 2004 Vatican Christmas stamp was a sarcophagus, technically it was an 18th-century engraving of a 4th-century early Christian sarcophagus. The stamp was made to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Vatican Pio-Christian Museum.



Christmas 2004
Scott 1291 (2004)



See Also
• Natalle UFN Bulletin - 18 Nivember 2004