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The Tring Tiles are a set of earthenware tiles from the mid-1300s depicting stories from the early life of Jesus Christ featured in the apocryphal Infancy Gospel of Thomas. Discovered in Tring, Hertfordshire, England during a restoration of Tring Parish Church, the tiles feature scenes of Jesus interacting with other children, often in humorous and mischievous ways.

Background
Little is known about the tiles' discovery, but museum records note that the tiles were unearthed during a restoration of the chancel in a parish in Tring, around the early 1860s. After they were purchased from a private collection by the British Museum, thermoluminescence dating suggested that the tiles were at least 500 years old at the time of their creation.

The Tiles
In the order of their display, the first tile depicts a plough driven by a horse and two figures harvesting corn on the left. On the right, adults, likely parents, have shut a child in an oven to prevent him from playing with Jesus. The second tile features a young Jesus taming two lion cubs in the presence of several men, to its right, Jesus is preparing to poke a man while he is engaged in conversation, taunting him.