10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GAMMADIA»
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gammadia in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
gammadia and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Byzantine Art and Diplomacy in an Age of Decline
It then continues on the back of the sakkos with the Nativity, Flight into Egypt,
Presentation, Baptism, and Raising of Lazarus all pictured within the gammadia.
The Passion scenes follow on the front of the sakkos where the Entry, Last
Supper, ...
2
The Embodied Icon: Liturgical Vestments and Sacramental ...
The gammadia below the Ascension show Christ's Agony in the Garden of
Gethsemane and the Betrayal by Judas. The Transfiguration appears in the
central rectangle between the crosses. Flanking its lower part are the scenes of
the Baptism ...
3
Ravenna in Late Antiquity
Quacquarelli, 1977, interprets the very prominent gammadia on these mantles as
numerical symbols that had particular meaning for Arian theology, as revealed in
an Arian theological work, the Opus imperfectum in Matthaeum, but this seems ...
Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis, 2010
4
Brigham Young University Studies
Whereas the gammadia from Masada are all quite simple — all appear to be right
-angle patterns — in artifacts from other sites, the markings referred to as
gammadia could also be of a second design "a straight bar with two prongs at
each end ...
5
Early Christian Art and Architecture
On the Sens fragments Christian emblems are frequent, both crosses and '
gammadia'.18 When figures are introduced, they are nearly always worked in a
greyish yellow, against a background of deep purple, but this rather grand and
simple ...
Robert Leslie Pollington Milburn, 1988
6
Masada and the world of the New Testament
Whereas the gammadia from Masada are all quite simple — all appear to be right
-angle patterns — in artifacts from other sites, the markings referred to as
gammadia could also be of a second design: "a straight bar with two prongs at
each ...
John Franklin Hall, John Woodland Welch, 1997
7
Free-Masonry: A Traditional Organization
... four branches associated with the four creatures. In the Christian tradition, a
similar figure is the gammadia or “the cross voided throughout,” composed of four
Greek letters gamma, where the inner void in the shape of a cross symbolizes ...
Mircea Alexandru Tamas, 2010
The name of the author of this most curious relic of the Art of Engraving in wood,
is placed in the vacant space at the end of February: it is Johannes de Gammadia
, a celebrated mathematician and restorer of astronomy, native of Gmunden in ...
9
A Commentary on the Apocalypse of John
One may wonder whether John might possibly be thinking of something similar to
those mysterious letters (usually called gammadia) that appear in paleo-Christian
portraiture, for instance, on the white robes of the saints, as in the mosaic of ...
10
Bibliographia Patristica/Internationale Patristische ...
1981/82, 3231) i11 - 122 2965 Quacquarelli, A. La gammadia pietra angolare: L -
VetChr 21 (1984) 5-26 [1486] Richardson, W.: Clemens Alexandrinus [1335]
Riggi, C.: Basilius Caesariensis [2107] Saenz, A.: Leo Magnus 2966 Sahlin, H.
Wie ...
Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 1989
