Abstract. – The body has been an important symbolic metaphor in various periods. It was not just an actual human body that was employed in individual portrayals, but also a corporeality which was incorporated in much more complex visual processes. Since the Neolithic human representations were composite part of symbolic embodiment of reality and engaged within the explication of the most crucial substantial principles. Such practice progressed into a concept of anthropomorphism where human body had a major role in asserting the fundamental notions of the material and spiritual environment. Within the concept a realm of visual hybridism was introduced as means of relationships between human body, household, and nature. Supported by numerous segments of material culture such imagery principle was common in prehistory, but also had huge impact into Classical art and religion, and especially within early Christian iconography. This article considers the symbolic evolution of these visual processes and how they were integrated in sacred texts and images related with the notion of Christ and its representations on mosaics and frescoes. [Archaeology, Christian symbolic, iconography, vessels, funeral art]