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  2. Ankh - Wikipedia

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    Ankh signs in two-dimensional art were typically painted blue or black. [24] The earliest ankh amulets were often made of gold or electrum, a gold and silver alloy. Egyptian faience, a ceramic that was usually blue or green, was the most common material for ankh amulets in later times, perhaps because its color represented life and regeneration ...

  3. List of Egyptian hieroglyphs - Wikipedia

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    The total number of distinct Egyptian hieroglyphs increased over time from several hundred in the Middle Kingdom to several thousand during the Ptolemaic Kingdom.. In 1928/1929 Alan Gardiner published an overview of hieroglyphs, Gardiner's sign list, the basic modern standard.

  4. Christian cross variants - Wikipedia

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    Coptic ankh: Shaped like the letter T surmounted by an oval or circle. Originally the Egyptian symbol for "life", it was adopted by the Copts (Egyptian Christians). Also called a crux ansata, meaning "cross with a handle". Coptic cross: The original Coptic cross has its origin in the Coptic ankh. As depicted in Rudolf Koch's The Book of Signs ...

  5. Adventurers of the North: Kalevala Heroes - Wikipedia

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    In the 1994 book Roolipeliopas (Role-playing Guide), Lauri Tudeer recalled that ANKH "was disappointing compared to the advertising campaign." [3]In their 2007 book Roolipelikirja (Role Playing Book), Jukka Särkijärvi and Kaj Sotala believed the game design's reliance on other role-playing games explained its lack of success, but thought it might have some value as a collectible: "ANKH may ...

  6. List of Kamen Rider OOO characters - Wikipedia

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    When Kazari and Ankh (Lost) convince Mezool to join their cause, Gamel joins them out of loyalty to her. After Ankh recovers and gives Gamel the rest of his remaining Core Medals and Mezool is killed by Kamen Rider OOO, a grief-stricken Gamel attacks people using his Cell Medal production powers in a futile attempt to resurrect her.

  7. Cross moline - Wikipedia

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    The name derives from its shape, which resembles a millrind, the iron clamp of the upper millstone, moline being the Old French for a mill. It is very similar to one of the varieties of the "fer de moline" heraldic charge (literal French: "iron of a mill"), the forked tips of which, however, circle out slightly more, akin to the "cross recercelee".

  8. Ankhhaf (sculpture) - Wikipedia

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    It depicts a mature man and was therefore likely made during the reign of Khafre (circa 2520–2494 BC). One of the earliest – and even after four and a half thousand years, still among the finest – true sculptured portraits, it is an almost unprecedented depiction of the unidealised features of an actual man.

  9. Staurogram - Wikipedia

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    The two letters tau and rho can be found separately (not in ligature) as symbols already on early Christian ossuaries. [6] Tertullian (Contra Marcionem 3.22) explains the Tau as a symbol of salvation by identification with the sign which in Ezekiel 9:4 was marked on the forehead of the saved ones. [3]