The tomb, in which 10 members of the royal family were buried, is decorated with a mosaic and a depiction of a cross. Also, a plate with an Assyrian inscription “Great King Abgar V the Black, the first Christian ruler of Edessa” was discovered.
King Abgar V ruled the kingdom of Osroene twice in the Armenian part of Northern Mesopotamia, the capital of which in 4 BC – 7 AD and 13 – 50 was Edessa.
King Abgar is considered the first Christian king. In the Edessan archives in the 4th century, Eusebius of Caesarea found a document testifying to the correspondence of the king with Jesus. In it, Abgar called Jesus “the Son of God” and asks him for healing.
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