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^{page 248 note 2} Gnecchi, op. cit., p. 13, 5; Maurice, Numism. constantinienne, pl. xiii, 6; Catal. Hamburger, 1923, pl. 56, 1365.

^{page 248 note 3} Gnecchi, op. cit., pl. 29, 15; pl. 33, 14.

^{page 248 note 4} The portraits of the emperor and his sons were attached to the shaft of the labarum, not to the vexillum; compare de'Cavalieri, Franchi, Studi Romani, I, p. 170Google Scholar.

^{page 248 note 5} Cohen, VII, p. 91, n. 30; p. 109, n. 40; p. 132, n. 51; Catal. Hess, 1917, pl. xxii, 4574, 4605; 1929, pl. 23, 982; 1933, pl. 32, 1108.

^{page 248 note 6} BM Imp. Byz. Coins, II, pl. li, 14, 15; pl. lii, 7.

^{page 248 note 7} Sabatier, Monn. byz. pl. lv, 7; lvi, 13; lvii, 13, 22; lviii, 6; lxv, 6.

^{page 248 note 8} Sabatier, pl. xlviii, 2; BM Imp. Byz. Coins, II, pl. lvii, 3.

^{page 249 note 1} Sabatier, pl. xlix, 13; lii, 9; liii, 2, and elsewhere.

^{page 249 note 2} Sabatier, pl. xlix, 3, 4, 10, 16; xliii, 14; xlvii, 15; 1, 6; li, 4, 8, 13.

^{page 249 note 3} BM Persis, pl. xxviii, 7–11; xxix, 1–12; xxx, 1–8; lii, 11, 12.

^{page 249 note 4} Cohen, I, p. 133, 483–485.

^{page 249 note 5} Domaszewski, , Die Fahnen im röm. Heere, 1885, p. 46Google Scholar.

^{page 249 note 6} Cohen, III, p. 19, n. 174.

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^{page 250 note 1} Hucher, I, pl. 83, 2.

^{page 250 note 2} Hucher, I, pl. 83, 3.

^{page 250 note 3} Jacobsthal, , Einige Werke kelt. Kunst (Die Antike, 1934, p. 39)Google Scholar, after pointing out different parallels between Iranian and Celtic animal motives concludes: “Schon diese wenigen Parallelen … stellen eine Berührung der frühen La Tène Kunst mit dem skythischen, thrakischen und iranischen Kreis sicher.” Compare also Roes, , Greek Geometric Art, p. 6 ffGoogle Scholar.

^{page 250 note 4} Roes, op. cit., p. 32 ff. and fgs. 24–28.

^{page 250 note 5} Herzfeld, , Mitt, aus Iran, 1933, p. 88, fig. 15Google Scholar; p. 89, fig. 16; p. 90, fig. 17.

^{page 250 note 6} BM Greece, pl. i, 3. Another coin of the same description is in the Dublin collection. They date from the VIth century B.C.

^{page 250 note 7} Roes, , Greek Geometric Art, p. 34 ffGoogle Scholar.

^{page 250 note 8} Tertullian, , Apologeticum, XVI, 9Google Scholar: Alii plane humanius et verisimilius solem credunt deum nostrum. Ad Persas, si forte, deputabimur, licet solem non in linteo depictum adoremus, habentes ipsum ubique in suo clupeo.

^{page 250 note 9} Proc. Brit. Acad. 1929, p. 440Google Scholar.

^{page 250 note 10} Cumont, , Textes et monuments, I, p. 176Google Scholar; Glück, , Die Christl. Kunst. des Ostens, p. 7 fGoogle Scholar.

^{page 251 note 1} King, Bronze Reliefs from the Gates of Shalmaneser, pl. xix, shows an Assyrian standard of this shape, undoubtedly meant for the sun-disk, with two tassels attached to it. In early Christian art it occurs on a wall painting at Doura; AJA 1933, p. 379, fig. 2Google Scholar. Here the rays with which it is surrounded do not leave any doubt about its meaning.

^{page 251 note 2} Genava, 1929, p. 181 ffGoogle Scholar.

^{page 251 note 3} MacMillan, , Scottish Symbols, pp. 84, 86Google Scholar; Seymour, , The Cross in Tradition, History and Art, p. 366Google Scholar.