medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>in Early Christian art, [...] actual garments
> with such
> letters on them have been found in biblical archaeological sites
> in Palestine, and
> one theory is that they simply represent "period costume" from
> biblical times.
We still see these at the end of the medieval period, so they are not
only 'early'. Here is a 1490 Augsburg woodcut (644k jpeg):
<http://freespace.virgin.net/angus.graham/Sorg.jpg>
Angus Graham
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