medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
My thanks to Jim, Angus, and Marjorie, who wrote:
>The Greek gamma and the Hebrew equivalent (I think it's the same letter)
>are mirror images of each other. Any chance of a connection or
>significance here? What would be the point of a "backwards" gamma and have
>any actual garments been found with same?
Thanks to Jim's providing the name of the thing in question, I was
able to find some brief discussions of gammadia on the Classics list:
http://omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu/mailing_lists/CLA-L/1999/04/subject.php
s.v. "Gammadia" and "Roman Lead Coffin"
A Byzantinist friend supplied this URL with a reproduction of an example:
http://posters.seindal.dk/p314565_The_Doubting_St_Thomas.html
Again, thank you to those who wrote.
John
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