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Abstract: The associations of the symbol named chrismon with other symbolic images and texts. The chrismon represents the name and the abbreviation of Jesus Christ and it occurs in association with basic symbols of early Christianity. The research works related to the associations of the chrismon encountered on different objects have been the topics for numerous researchers in the field. Nevertheless, it hasn’t come to my knowledge of studies which should synthetize these efforts and gather the results of the discoveries to present them in an integrate manner. The difficulties derive from the strenuous access to the objects which make the repertory of the work, as well as from the lack of catalogues which should contain colorful images with these objects.The author proposed himself to analyze the causes which led to the elaboration of the associations and their use by both the persons who created them and the ones who employed them. The appeal to distinct symbols was, among other things, a measure to dissimulate, to avoid the state’s control, to assert and develop the dogma of faith, to propagate and expand faith, but also to express the high level of artistic manifestation existing in the Roman society. The study tries to analyze each of these symbols and associated texts, starting from the eventual taking-over from pagan art or the dogma of otherbeliefs, going on with the scriptural and patristic foundation on which the acceptance by Christians is based and finishing with the evolution of associated symbols in Christian iconography.
KEY WORDS: chrismon, symbol, Cross, Jesus Christ. |
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