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Ch. 4: Engraved Gems as Talismans

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136 THE CURIOUS LORE OF PRECIOUS STONES
Egyptian or Phoenician art, drawing the inference that all three symbols originated in the same form or figure.26 To all these symbols were attributed talismanic virtues and they were frequently engraved on precious stones.
The so-called "Monogrammatic Cross" was very freely used in work of the fifth century. This is simply a modification of the monogram formed of the first two
letters of the name Christ as written in Greek, a device which first appeared after the time of Constantine the Great (d. 337 a.D.). This monogram usually assumed the following form: P, and the "Monogrammatic Cross" was made by changing the position of the Greek X (chi), and making one of its arms serve as the straight gtroke of the Ρ (r), thus giving the following form: P.
20 Hoernes, Urgeschichte der bildonden Kunst," Vienna, 1898, p. 338,
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