The image of the Good Shepherd is the most common of the
symbolic representations of Christ found in Early Christian art
in the Catacombs of Rome, before Christian imagery could
be made explicit. The form of the image showing a young man
carrying a lamb round his neck . The image continued to be used
in the centuries after Christianity. Images of the Good Shepherd
often include a sheep on his shoulders, aversion of the
Parable of the Lost Sheep.