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The ankh was a widespread decorative motif in ancient Egypt, also used decoratively by neighbouring cultures. Copts adapted it into the crux ansata, a shape with a circular rather than droplet loop, and used it as a variant of the Christian cross.
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 ...
Ansata (Latin for "handled") may refer to: Crux ansata , a Christian cross that is shaped like an ankh with a circular rather than oval or teardrop-shaped loop Tabula ansata , a tablet with dovetail handles
Ankh: The ankh or crux ansata, an Egyptian hieroglyph representing "life". Basque cross: The Basque cross or lauburu. the Sun cross: The "sun cross" or "wheel cross" appears with some regularity in prehistoric European artefacts, usually interpreted as a solar symbol, perhaps representing the spoked wheel of the Sun chariot. Swastika
The Tau and the circle together make one form of the Rosy Cross, the uniting of subject and object which is the Great Work, and which is symbolized sometimes as this cross and circle, sometimes as the Lingam-Yoni, sometimes as the Ankh or Crux Ansata, sometimes by the Spire and Nave of a church or temple, and sometimes as a marriage feast ...
The manuscript ends with Acts 15:3 on folio 155 recto while the following page verso has been left blank. The manuscript has some illuminations; at the end of the manuscript, on an additional leaf, it has a picture with a great crux ansata (cross with handle), a motif appearing in Coptic textiles and stone sculptures. The picture is in the ...
Crux Ansata was published in 1943, during the Second World War, by Penguin Books, Harmondsworth (Great Britain): Penguin Special No. 129. [1] The U.S. edition was copyrighted and published in 1944 by Agora Publishing Company, New York, with a portrait frontispiece and an appendix of an interview with Wells recorded by John Rowland. [2]
The original Coptic cross used by early Gnostic Christians in Egypt. Old Coptic crosses often incorporate a circle, [5] [better source needed] as in the form called a "Coptic cross" by Rudolf Koch in his The Book of Signs (1933).