• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: A Symbol of Hope From Thessalonica
  • Contributor: Nystrom, Bradley P.
  • imprint: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 1981
  • Published in: Harvard Theological Review
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1017/s0017816000028625
  • ISSN: 0017-8160; 1475-4517
  • Keywords: Religious studies
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  • Description: <jats:p>A fourth-century inscription from Thessalonica includes an enigmatic symbol for which no explanation has been offered. The symbol appears on a stone marking the graves of a certain Σαμβάτιϛ and, presumably, his wife, Mαξήμα, and represents three intersecting staffs.</jats:p>