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  2. Dagger (mark) - Wikipedia

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    [1] [25] The asterisk and the dagger, when placed beside years, indicate year of birth and year of death respectively. [5] This usage is particularly common in German. [26] When placed immediately before or after a person's name, the dagger indicates that the person is deceased. [5] [27] [28] [29] In this usage, it is referred to as the "death ...

  3. Symbols of death - Wikipedia

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    In Buddhism, the symbol of a wheel represents the perpetual cycle of death and rebirth that happens in samsara. [6] The symbol of a grave or tomb, especially one in a picturesque or unusual location, can be used to represent death, as in Nicolas Poussin's famous painting Et in Arcadia ego. Images of life in the afterlife are also symbols of death.

  4. Dis Pater - Wikipedia

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    In literature, Dis Pater's name was commonly used as a symbolic and poetic way of referring to death itself. Dis Pater was sometimes identified with the Sabine god Soranus . [ 4 ] Julius Caesar , in his Commentaries on the Gallic Wars ( VI :18), states that the Gauls all claimed descent from Dis Pater .

  5. Memento mori - Wikipedia

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    The bones rest on a brick, a symbol of his former industry and achievement. [1] Memento mori. Gravestone inscription (1746). Edinburgh. St. Cuthbert's Churchyard. Memento mori (Latin for "remember (that you have) to die") [2] is an artistic or symbolic trope acting as a reminder of the inevitability of death. [2]

  6. Religious and political symbols in Unicode - Wikipedia

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    Characters that fall in the "political or religious" category are given the "general category" So, which is the catch-all category for "Symbol, other", i.e. anything considered a "symbol" which does not fall in any of the three other categories of Sm (mathematical symbols), Sc (currency symbols) or Sk (phonetic modifier symbols, i.e. IPA signs ...

  7. Rod of Asclepius - Wikipedia

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    The emergency medical services' Star of Life features a rod of Asclepius In Greek mythology, the Rod of Asclepius (⚕; Ancient Greek: Ῥάβδος τοῦ Ἀσκληπιοῦ, Rhábdos toû Asklēpioû, sometimes also spelled Asklepios), also known as the Staff of Aesculapius and as the asklepian, [1] is a serpent-entwined rod wielded by the Greek god Asclepius, a deity associated with ...

  8. Erecura - Wikipedia

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    A name of the form */aireˈkura/ or */(h)eːreˈkura/ appears to underlie the alternations Aeraecura ~ Aerecura ~ Aericura ~ Eracura ~ Ercura ~ Erecura ~ Heracura ~ Herecura ~ Herequra. Though the goddess herself may be Celtic , it is open to question whether the name is of Celtic origin or even Indo-European .

  9. Roman funerary art - Wikipedia

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    Roman funerary bust (AD 100–115) of a child slave named Martialis, who died just under the age of three (Digital image courtesy of Getty’s Open Content Program) Epitaphs often emphasize the relationship between the deceased and dedicant, with most relationships being familial (husbands and wives, parents and children, etc.).