art question== sapnay

[sapnay]

Hello friends-- I have a question for art lovers and faithful:

I am teacher of art history.

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?

Any ideas?

S

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sapnay wrote:

Could you rephrase your characterization of the symbol? This is a
Christian webgroup