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From: "Ciarrai" <kerri_k@email.msn.com>
Subject: Zs on Byzantine Tunics
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 15:58:44 -0800
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I am posting the following from a friend of mine who is a reference
librarian at a small community college.

"The art history students are really hitting me with some tough
questions.  Have you ever seen the "z" symbol on clothing of soldiers or
medieval figures?  I have a student trying to figure out what this
means.  If you have anything on Byzantine art you can see an example on
a mosaic from the apse vault of San Vitale entitled "Christ Between
Angels and Saints (Second Coming)."
http://www.wsu.edu:8000/wciv/b/bb/bbu/bbu44.jpg
We're having trouble because we don't know what to even call the darned
symbol."

Does anyone know what this symbol means?



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