Anonymous ID: b62d78 May 18, 2020, 7:34 p.m. No.9233263   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3296

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christogram

 

In Eastern Christianity, the most widely used Christogram is a four-letter abbreviation, ΙϹ ΧϹ—a traditional abbreviation of the Greek words for "Jesus Christ" (i.e., the first and last letters of each of the words "ΙΗϹΟΥϹ ΧΡΙϹΤΟϹ", with the lunate sigma "Ϲ" common in medieval Greek),[18] and written with titlo (diacritic) denoting scribal abbreviation (І҃С Х҃С).

 

On icons, this Christogram may be split: "ΙϹ" on the left of the image and "ΧϹ" on the right. It is sometimes rendered as "ΙϹ ΧϹ ΝΙΚΑ" (Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς νικᾷ), meaning "Jesus Christ Conquers." "ΙϹΧϹ" may also be seen inscribed on the Ichthys.

 

Depiction of the "ΙϹ ΧϹ ΝΙΚΑ" arrangement in medieval Greek tradition.