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What (who) is labarum - definition

BANNER OR VEXILLUM ON WHICH ☧ (CHI RHO) IS DISPLAYED
Chi-Rho (Labarum); Labarum (Chi-Rho); Chi-Rio
  • The Labarum of Constantine I, reconstructed from the depiction on a [[follis]] minted c. 337. The three dots represent "medallions" which are said to have shown portraits of Constantine and his sons.<ref>A. Macgeorge, ''Flags'', Glasgow (1881): The labarum of the emperors [...] frequently bore upon it a representation of the emperor, sometimes by himself and sometimes accompanied by the heads of members of his family."</ref>

Labarum         
·noun The standard adopted by the Emperor Constantine after his conversion to Christianity. It is described as a pike bearing a silk banner hanging from a crosspiece, and surmounted by a golden crown. It bore a monogram of the first two letters (CHR) of the name of Christ in its Greek form. Later, the name was given to various modifications of this standard.
labarum         
['lab?r?m]
¦ noun Constantine the Great's imperial standard, bearing Christian symbols fused with Roman military symbols.
Origin
C17: from late L., of unknown origin.

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Labarum

The labarum (Greek: λάβαρον) was a vexillum (military standard) that displayed the "Chi-Rho" symbol , a christogram formed from the first two Greek letters of the word "Christ" (Greek: ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ, or Χριστός) – Chi (χ) and Rho (ρ). It was first used by the Roman emperor Constantine the Great.

Ancient sources draw an unambiguous distinction between the two terms "labarum" and "Chi-Rho", even though later usage sometimes regards the two as synonyms. The name labarum was applied both to the original standard used by Constantine the Great and to the many standards produced in imitation of it in the Late Antique world, and subsequently.