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</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Not to be confused with the <a href="Ruble_sign" title="Ruble sign">Russian ruble sign</a> (₽).</div>

The staurogram (⳨), also monogrammatic cross or tau-rho,<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> is a <a href="Typographic_ligature" class="mw-redirect" title="Typographic ligature">ligature</a> composed of a superposition of the <a href="Greek_alphabet" title="Greek alphabet">Greek letters</a> <a href="Tau_(letter)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tau (letter)">tau</a> (Τ) and <a href="Rho_(letter)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rho (letter)">rho</a> (Ρ).

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_occurrence_and_significance">Early occurrence and significance</h2></div>

The symbol is of pre-Christian origin. It is found on copper coins minted by <a href="Herod_the_Great" title="Herod the Great">Herod I</a> in 37 BC, interpreted as a tr ligature representing trikhalkon indicating the coin value.<a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Abbreviation_for_stauros">Abbreviation for stauros</h3></div>

The staurogram was first used to abbreviate <a href="Stauros" title="Stauros">stauros</a> (<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B1%CF%85%CF%81%CF%8C%CF%82" class="extiw external" title="wiktionary:σταυρός">σταυρός</a>), the Greek word for <a href="Christian_cross" title="Christian cross">cross</a>, in very early <a href="New_Testament_manuscripts" class="mw-redirect" title="New Testament manuscripts">New Testament manuscripts</a> such as <a href="Papyrus_66" title="Papyrus 66">𝔓66</a>, <a href="Papyrus_45" title="Papyrus 45">𝔓45</a> and <a href="Papyrus_75" title="Papyrus 75">𝔓75</a>, almost like a <a href="Nomina_sacra" title="Nomina sacra">nomen sacrum</a>, and may visually have represented <a href="Crucifix" title="Crucifix">Jesus on the cross</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Hurtado-3">[3]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Monogram_of_Christ">Monogram of Christ</h3></div>

The Tau-Rho as a <a href="Christian_symbol" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian symbol">Christian symbol</a> outside its function as <a href="Nomen_sacrum" class="mw-redirect" title="Nomen sacrum">nomen sacrum</a> in biblical manuscripts appears from <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> the 4th century, used as a <a href="Christogram" title="Christogram">monogramma Christi</a> alongside the <a href="Chi-Rho" class="mw-redirect" title="Chi-Rho">Chi-Rho</a> and other variants, spreading to Western Europe in the 5th and 6th centuries.<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="In_combination_with_alpha_and_omega">In combination with alpha and omega</h3></div>

<a href="Ephrem_the_Syrian" title="Ephrem the Syrian">Ephrem the Syrian</a> (4th century) discusses a Christian symbol, apparently combining the Tau-Rho with <a href="Alpha_and_Omega" title="Alpha and Omega">Alpha and Omega</a> placed under the left and right horizontal arms of the Tau.

Ephrem says that the Tau represents the cross of Jesus (prefigured by the outstretched hands of <a href="Moses" title="Moses">Moses</a> in <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/Exodus#17:11" class="extiw external" title="s:Bible (King James)/Exodus">Exodus 17:11</a>), the Alpha and Omega signify that the crucified Christ is "the beginning and end", and the Rho, finally, signifies "Help" (βοήθια [<a href="Sic" title="Sic">sic</a>]; classical spelling: <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B2%CE%BF%CE%AE%CE%B8%CE%B5%CE%B9%CE%B1" class="extiw external" title="wikt:βοήθεια">βοήθεια</a>), because of the

<a href="Numerology" title="Numerology">numerological</a> value of the Greek word being <a href="100_(number)" class="mw-redirect" title="100 (number)">100</a>, represented by Rho as a <a href="Greek_numeral" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek numeral">Greek numeral</a>.<a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tau_and_rho_separately">Tau and rho separately</h3></div>

The two letters tau and rho can be found separately (not in ligature) as symbols already on <a href="Early_Christianity" title="Early Christianity">early Christian</a> <a href="Ossuaries" class="mw-redirect" title="Ossuaries">ossuaries</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Bagatti-6">[6]</a> <a href="Tertullian" title="Tertullian">Tertullian</a> (Contra Marcionem 3.22) explains the Tau as a symbol of salvation by identification with the sign which in <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/Ezekiel#9:4" class="extiw external" title="s:Bible (King James)/Ezekiel">Ezekiel 9:4</a> was marked on the forehead of the saved ones.<a href="#cite_note-Hurtado-3">[3]</a>

The rho by itself can refer to Christ as <a href="Messiah" title="Messiah">Messiah</a> because <a href="Abraham" title="Abraham">Abraham</a>, taken as a symbol of the Messiah, generated <a href="Isaac" title="Isaac">Isaac</a> according to a promise made by God when he was one hundred years old, and 100 is the value of rho.<a href="#cite_note-Bagatti-6">[6]</a>: 158

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Coptic_Unicode_block">Coptic Unicode block</h4></div>

The staurogram is encoded by <a href="Unicode" title="Unicode">Unicode</a> in the <a href="Coptic_(Unicode_block)" title="Coptic (Unicode block)">Coptic</a> block, at <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886049734">

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</style>U+2CE8 ⳨ COPTIC SYMBOL TAU RO, and as of Unicode 7.0 (2014) also in the <a href="Ancient_Symbols" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Symbols">Ancient Symbols</a> block, at U+101A0 𐆠 GREEK SYMBOL TAU RHO. The Coptic block has a ligature of the full word σταυρός, where the τρ is represented by the staurogram, and two <a href="Lunate_sigma" class="mw-redirect" title="Lunate sigma">lunate sigmas</a> are attached to either side of the tau's horizontal bar, at U+2CE7 ⳧ COPTIC SYMBOL STAUROS.

<ul><li><a href="Chi_(letter)" title="Chi (letter)">Chi (letter)</a></li>

<li><a href="Christogram" title="Christogram">Christogram</a></li>

<li><a href="Descriptions_in_antiquity_of_the_execution_cross" title="Descriptions in antiquity of the execution cross">Descriptions in antiquity of the execution cross</a></li>

<li><a href="Early_Christian_symbols" class="mw-redirect" title="Early Christian symbols">Early Christian symbols</a></li>

<li><a href="Greek_ligatures" title="Greek ligatures">Greek ligatures</a></li>

<li><a href="Stauros" title="Stauros">Stauros</a></li>

<li><a href="Stigma_(letter)" class="mw-redirect" title="Stigma (letter)">Stigma (letter)</a></li>

<li><a href="Tau_cross" title="Tau cross">Tau cross</a></li></ul>

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<li id="cite_note-1"><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a> The term <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/staurogram" class="extiw external" title="wikt:staurogram">staurogram</a> in this sense is of relatively late coinage (1960s); "monogrammatic cross" is in use in the later 19th century.

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<li id="cite_note-2"><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a> F. W. Madden, History of Jewish Coinage (1864), 83–85.

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</style><cite id="CITEREFHurtado2006" class="citation book cs1"><a href="Larry_W._Hurtado" class="mw-redirect" title="Larry W. Hurtado">Hurtado, Larry</a> (2006). "The Staurogram in Early Christian Manuscripts: the earliest visual reference to the crucified Jesus?". In Kraus, Thomas (ed.). New Testament Manuscripts. Leiden: Brill. pp. 207–26. <a href="Hdl_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hdl (identifier)">hdl</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://hdl.handle.net/1842%2F1204">1842/1204</a>. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-90-04-14945-8</bdi>.</cite>

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<li id="cite_note-4"><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a> <cite id="CITEREFRedknap1991" class="citation book cs1">Redknap, Mark (1991). The Christian Celts: Treasures of late celtic Wales. Cardiff, UK: National Museum of Wales. p. 61. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-0-7200-0354-3</bdi>.</cite>

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<li id="cite_note-5"><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a> Hurtado (2006), citing <a href="Franz_Joseph_D%C3%B6lger" title="Franz Joseph Dölger">F. J. Dölger</a>, Sol Salutis (1920), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://fedora.phaidra.univie.ac.at/fedora/get/o:34206/bdef:Book/view#">p. 61</a> (note 2).

Ephraem in sanctam Parasceven, Ephraem Syri opera omnia quae extant graece — syriace — latine Tom. III Romae 1746, p. 477.

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<li id="cite_note-Bagatti-6">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Bagatti_6-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bagatti_6-1">b</a> <a href="Bellarmino_Bagatti" title="Bellarmino Bagatti">Bagatti, Bellarmino</a>, "The Church from the Circumcision: History and Archaeology of the Judaeo-Christians", Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, Collectio Minor n. 2, Jerusalem (1984).

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<ul><li> The dictionary definition of <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/staurogram" class="extiw external" title="wiktionary:staurogram">staurogram</a> at Wiktionary</li>

<li> Media related to <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Staurogram" class="extiw external" title="commons:Category:Staurogram">Staurogram</a> at Wikimedia Commons</li></ul>

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<ul><li> <a href="Cross_of_Alcoraz" title="Cross of Alcoraz">Alcoraz</a></li>

<li> <a href="Anchored_Cross" class="mw-redirect" title="Anchored Cross">Anchored/Saint Clement</a></li>

<li> <a href="Anuradhapura_cross" title="Anuradhapura cross">Anuradhapura</a></li>

<li> <a href="Cross_of_the_Archangels" class="mw-redirect" title="Cross of the Archangels">Archangels</a></li>

<li> <a href="Archiepiscopal_cross" title="Archiepiscopal cross">Archiepiscopal</a></li>

<li> <a href="Armenian_Cross" title="Armenian Cross">Armenian</a></li>

<li> <a href="Arrow_Cross" title="Arrow Cross">Arrow/Barby</a></li>

<li> <a href="Balkenkreuz" title="Balkenkreuz">Balkenkreuz</a></li>

<li> <a href="Bolnisi_cross" title="Bolnisi cross">Bolnisi</a></li>

<li> <a href="Cross_bottony" class="mw-redirect" title="Cross bottony">Bottony</a></li>

<li> Branch</li>

<li> <a href="Bulgarian_cross" class="mw-redirect" title="Bulgarian cross">Bulgarian</a></li>

<li> <a href="Cross_of_Burgundy" title="Cross of Burgundy">Burgundy</a></li>

<li> <a href="Byzantine_cross" class="mw-redirect" title="Byzantine cross">Byzantine</a></li>

<li> <a href="Calvary_(sculpture)" class="mw-redirect" title="Calvary (sculpture)">Calvary</a></li>

<li> <a href="Cross_of_Camargue" title="Cross of Camargue">Camargue</a></li>

<li> <a href="Canterbury_cross" title="Canterbury cross">Canterbury</a></li>

<li> <a href="Breaking_wheel#Execution_of_St._Catherine" title="Breaking wheel">Catherine wheel</a></li>

<li> <a href="Celtic_cross" title="Celtic cross">Celtic</a>

<ul><li> <a href="Celtic_cross" title="Celtic cross">Variant</a></li></ul></li>

<li> <a href="Cercel%C3%A9e" class="mw-redirect" title="Cercelée">Cercelée</a></li>

<li> <a href="Coptic_cross" title="Coptic cross">Coptic</a></li>

<li> <a href="Cossack_cross" title="Cossack cross">Cossack</a></li>

<li> <a href="Cross_crosslet" class="mw-redirect" title="Cross crosslet">Crosslet</a>

<ul><li> <a href="Cross_crosslet_fitchy" class="mw-redirect" title="Cross crosslet fitchy">Fitchy</a></li></ul></li>

<li> <a href="Crucifix" title="Crucifix">Crucifix</a></li>

<li> <a href="Cruciform_halo" class="mw-redirect" title="Cruciform halo">Cruciform halo</a></li>

<li> Double</li>

<li> <a href="Ethiopian_cross" title="Ethiopian cross">Ethiopian</a></li>

<li> <a href="Cross_of_the_Evangelists" class="mw-redirect" title="Cross of the Evangelists">Evangelists</a></li>

<li> <a href="Cross_fleury" title="Cross fleury">Fleury</a>

<ul><li> <a href="Cross_fleury" title="Cross fleury">Fitchy</a></li></ul></li>

<li> <a href="Forked_cross" title="Forked cross">Forked</a></li>

<li> <a href="Cross_fourchy" class="mw-redirect" title="Cross fourchy">Fourchy</a></li>

<li> <a href="Fylfot" title="Fylfot">Fylfot</a></li>

<li> <a href="Globus_cruciger" title="Globus cruciger">Globus cruciger</a>

<ul><li> <a href="Archbishop" title="Archbishop">Archbishop</a>'s variant</li></ul></li>

<li> <a href="Gnostic_cross" class="mw-redirect" title="Gnostic cross">Gnostic</a></li>

<li> <a href="Grapevine_cross" title="Grapevine cross">Grapevine/Saint Nino</a></li>

<li> <a href="Greek_cross" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek cross">Greek</a></li>

<li> <a href="Greek_Orthodox_cross" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek Orthodox cross">Greek Orthodox</a></li>

<li> <a href="Huguenot_cross" title="Huguenot cross">Huguenot</a></li>

<li> <a href="Cross_of_Jeremiah" class="mw-redirect" title="Cross of Jeremiah">Jeremiah</a></li>

<li> <a href="Jerusalem_cross" title="Jerusalem cross">Jerusalem/Crusaders</a></li>

<li> <a href="Kingdom_of_Jerusalem_cross" class="mw-redirect" title="Kingdom of Jerusalem cross">Jerusalem (Kingdom)</a></li>

<li> <a href="Latin_cross" title="Latin cross">Latin/Roman</a></li>

<li> <a href="Macedonian_Cross" title="Macedonian Cross">Macedonian</a></li>

<li> <a href="Maltese_cross" title="Maltese cross">Maltese</a></li>

<li><a href="Marada_Movement" title="Marada Movement">Marada</a></li>

<li> <a href="Marian_Cross" title="Marian Cross">Marian</a></li>

<li> <a href="Maronite_cross" class="mw-redirect" title="Maronite cross">Maronite</a></li>

<li> <a href="Cross_moline" title="Cross moline">Moline</a></li>

<li> <a href="Nordic_Cross" class="mw-redirect" title="Nordic Cross">Nordic</a></li>

<li> <a href="Cross_of_Novgorod" class="mw-redirect" title="Cross of Novgorod">Novgorod</a></li>

<li> <a href="Occitan_cross" title="Occitan cross">Occitan</a></li>

<li> <a href="Order_of_Christ_Cross" title="Order of Christ Cross">Order of Christ</a></li>

<li> <a href="Papal_cross" title="Papal cross">Papal</a></li>

<li> <a href="Cross_patonce" class="mw-redirect" title="Cross patonce">Patonce</a></li>

<li> <a href="Cross_patt%C3%A9e" title="Cross pattée">Pattée</a>

<ul><li> <a href="Cross_patt%C3%A9e_fitch%C3%A9e" class="mw-redirect" title="Cross pattée fitchée">Fitchée</a></li></ul></li>

<li> <a href="Patriarchal_cross" title="Patriarchal cross">Patriarchal</a></li>

<li> <a href="Pommy_cross" class="mw-redirect" title="Pommy cross">Pommy</a></li>

<li> <a href="Portate_cross" class="mw-redirect" title="Portate cross">Portate/Saint Gilbert</a></li>

<li> <a href="Cross_potent" title="Cross potent">Potent</a></li>

<li> <a href="Cross_quadrate" class="mw-redirect" title="Cross quadrate">Quadrate</a></li>

<li> Resistance</li>

<li> <a href="Ringed_cross" title="Ringed cross">Ringed</a></li>

<li> <a href="Russian_cross_(religion)" title="Russian cross (religion)">Russian</a></li>

<li> <a href="Russian_Orthodox_cross" title="Russian Orthodox cross">Russian Orthodox</a></li>

<li> <a href="Cross_of_Salem" title="Cross of Salem">Salem</a></li>

<li> <a href="Saltire" title="Saltire">Saltire/Saint Andrew</a></li>

<li> <a href="Cross_of_Saint_Chad" class="mw-redirect" title="Cross of Saint Chad">Saint Chad</a></li>

<li> <a href="Flag_of_Saint_David" title="Flag of Saint David">Saint David</a></li>

<li> <a href="St._Florian" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Florian">Saint Florian</a></li>

<li> <a href="Saint_George's_Cross" title="Saint George's Cross">Saint George</a></li>

<li> <a href="Cross_of_Saint_James" title="Cross of Saint James">Saint James/Santiago</a></li>

<li> <a href="Cross_of_Saint_John" class="mw-redirect" title="Cross of Saint John">Saint John</a></li>

<li> <a href="Saint_Patrick's_Saltire" title="Saint Patrick's Saltire">Saint Patrick</a></li>

<li> <a href="Cross_of_Saint_Peter" title="Cross of Saint Peter">Saint Peter</a></li>

<li> <a href="Philip_the_Apostle" title="Philip the Apostle">Saint Philip</a></li>

<li> <a href="Saint_Piran's_Flag" title="Saint Piran's Flag">Saint Piran</a></li>

<li> <a href="Saint_Thomas_Christian_cross" title="Saint Thomas Christian cross">Saint Thomas</a></li>

<li> <a href="Serbian_cross" title="Serbian cross">Serbian</a></li>

<li> <a href="Serbian_Orthodox_cross" class="mw-redirect" title="Serbian Orthodox cross">Serbian Orthodox</a></li>

<li> <a href="Crosses_in_heraldry" title="Crosses in heraldry">Short Sword</a></li>

<li> <a href="Eastern_Syriac_cross" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Syriac cross">Syriac (Eastern)</a></li>

<li> <a href="Western_Syriac_cross" class="mw-redirect" title="Western Syriac cross">Syriac (Western)</a></li>

<li> <a href="Tau_Cross" class="mw-redirect" title="Tau Cross">Tau</a>/<a href="Saint_Anthony's_Cross" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint Anthony's Cross">Saint Anthony</a></li></ul>

</div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="5" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Historical</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li> <a href="Avellane_cross" title="Avellane cross">Avellane</a></li>

<li> <a href="Kroaz_Du" title="Kroaz Du">Black</a></li>

<li> Blanc croix rouge</li>

<li> <a href="Brigid's_cross" title="Brigid's cross">Brigid</a></li>

<li> <a href="Carolingian_cross" title="Carolingian cross">Carolingian</a></li>

<li> <a href="Chouan" title="Chouan">Chouan</a></li>

<li> <a href="Consecration_crosses" class="mw-redirect" title="Consecration crosses">Consecration</a></li>

<li> <a href="Coptic_cross" title="Coptic cross">Coptic</a></li>

<li> <a href="Early_Coptic_cross" class="mw-redirect" title="Early Coptic cross">Coptic (Early)</a></li>

<li> <a href="Swastika" title="Swastika">Cross cramponnée</a></li>

<li> <a href="Cross_and_Crown" title="Cross and Crown">Crown</a></li>

<li> <a href="Cuthbert's_pectoral_cross" class="mw-redirect" title="Cuthbert's pectoral cross">Cuthbert's pectoral</a></li>

<li> Engrailed</li>

<li> Erminée</li>

<li> <a href="Gammadion" class="mw-redirect" title="Gammadion">Gammadion</a></li>

<li> <a href="Crux_gemmata" title="Crux gemmata">Jewelled</a></li>

<li> <a href="Katanga_Cross" title="Katanga Cross">Katanga</a></li>

<li> <a href="Lazarus'_cross" class="mw-redirect" title="Lazarus' cross">Lazarus</a></li>

<li> <a href="Cross_of_Lorraine" title="Cross of Lorraine">Lorraine</a></li>

<li> <a href="Cross_of_Neith" title="Cross of Neith">Neith</a></li>

<li> <a href="Nestorian_cross" title="Nestorian cross">Nestorian</a></li>

<li> <a href="Cross_of_Pe%C3%B1alba" title="Cross of Peñalba">Peñalba</a></li>

<li> <a href="Pierced_cross" class="mw-redirect" title="Pierced cross">Pierced</a>

<ul><li> <a href="Pierced_cross_quarterly" class="mw-redirect" title="Pierced cross quarterly">Quarterly</a></li></ul></li>

<li> <a href="Saint_Alban's_Cross" title="Saint Alban's Cross">Saint Alban</a></li>

<li> <a href="Saint_Julian's_cross" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint Julian's cross">Saint Julian</a></li>

<li> <a href="Knights_Templar_cross" class="mw-redirect" title="Knights Templar cross">Templar</a></li>

<li> <a href="Teutonic_Order#Insignia" title="Teutonic Order">Teutonic Order</a></li>

<li> <a href="Two-barred_cross" title="Two-barred cross">Two-barred</a></li>

<li> <a href="Victory_Cross" title="Victory Cross">Victory</a></li>

<li> Voided</li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">By function</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Altar_crucifix" class="mw-redirect" title="Altar crucifix">Altar</a></li>

<li><a href="Blessing_cross" title="Blessing cross">Blessing</a></li>

<li><a href="Conciliation_cross" title="Conciliation cross">Conciliation</a></li>

<li><a href="Crosses_in_heraldry" title="Crosses in heraldry">Heraldry</a>

<ul><li><a href="Nordic_cross" class="mw-redirect" title="Nordic cross">Nordic</a></li>

<li><a href="Pisan_cross" title="Pisan cross">Pisan</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Market_cross" title="Market cross">Market</a></li>

<li><a href="Mercat_cross" title="Mercat cross">Mercat</a></li>

<li><a href="Memorial_cross" title="Memorial cross">Memorial</a></li>

<li><a href="Mission_cross" title="Mission cross">Mission</a></li>

<li><a href="Cross_necklace" title="Cross necklace">Necklace</a></li>

<li><a href="Pectoral_cross" title="Pectoral cross">Pectoral</a></li>

<li><a href="Plague_cross" title="Plague cross">Plague</a></li>

<li><a href="Preaching_cross" title="Preaching cross">Preaching</a></li>

<li><a href="Processional_cross" title="Processional cross">Processional</a>

<ul><li><a href="Lalibela_Cross" title="Lalibela Cross">Lalibela</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Rood" title="Rood">Rood/Triumphal cross</a></li>

<li><a href="Summit_cross" title="Summit cross">Summit</a></li>

<li><a href="Wayside_cross" title="Wayside cross">Wayside</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Christogram" title="Christogram">Christograms</a>, <a href="Chi_Rho" title="Chi Rho">Chrismons</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li> <a href="IX_monogram" title="IX monogram">IX monogram</a></li>

<li> <a href="Labarum" title="Labarum">Labarum</a></li>

<li> <a href="Signum_manus" title="Signum manus">Signum manus</a></li>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li> <a href="Armenian_eternity_sign" title="Armenian eternity sign">Armenian eternity sign</a></li>

<li> <a href="Chakana" title="Chakana">Chakana</a></li>

<li> <a href="Ichthys" title="Ichthys">Ichthys</a></li>

<li> <a href="Irminsul" title="Irminsul">Irminsul</a></li>

<li> <a href="Kolovrat_(symbol)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kolovrat (symbol)">Kolovrat</a></li>

<li> <a href="Lauburu" title="Lauburu">Lauburu</a></li>

<li> <a href="Mj%C3%B6lnir" title="Mjölnir">Mjölnir</a></li>

<li> <a href="Solomon's_knot" title="Solomon's knot">Solomon's knot</a></li>

<li> <a href="Scientology_cross" title="Scientology cross">Scientology</a></li>

<li> <a href="Shamrock" title="Shamrock">Shamrock</a></li>

<li> <a href="Shield_of_the_Trinity" title="Shield of the Trinity">Shield of the Trinity</a></li>

<li> <a href="Swastika#Prehistory" title="Swastika">Sunwheel swastika</a></li>

<li> <a href="Swastika" title="Swastika">Swastika</a></li>

<li> <a href="Triskelion" title="Triskelion">Triskelion/Triskele</a></li>

<li> <a href="Descriptions_in_antiquity_of_the_execution_cross" title="Descriptions in antiquity of the execution cross">Descriptions in antiquity of the execution cross</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_tallest_crosses_in_the_world" title="List of tallest crosses in the world">List of tallest crosses in the world</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li> <a href="Portal%3AChristianity" title="Portal:Christianity">Christianity portal</a></li>

<li> <a href="Portal%3AArts" class="mw-redirect" title="Portal:Arts">Arts portal</a></li></ul>

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