Meaning & use
Gammadion
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A cross-shaped figure formed from four Greek capital letters gamma, used as a decorative or symbolic motif.
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Archaeologists found a gammadion pattern woven into the ancient textile's border.
The gammadion appears frequently in Byzantine church mosaics.
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The gammadion is an ancestor of the swastika motif and appears widely in pre-modern art across many cultures, long before the symbol's 20th-century misuse.
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