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Passau Running Wolf Blade Mark preview
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Passau Running Wolf Blade Mark

Running Wolf blade mark associated with the swordsmiths of Passau.

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Pictish Beast preview
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Pictish Beast

With its long snout, curved body and unmistakably unfamiliar anatomy, the Pictish Beast is one of the most enigmatic creatures carved on Pictish stones. Its identity—and what it meant to the people who carved it—remains unknown.

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Pilgrim Bell preview
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Pilgrim Bell

Small bells survive among the material traces of medieval pilgrimage, including examples linked with Thomas Becket's shrine at Canterbury, where they served as portable reminders of a sacred journey and place.

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Plain Double-disc Sign preview
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Plain Double-disc Sign

Two linked circular forms appear without an accompanying Z-rod on the ninth-century Ulbster Stone in Caithness, creating the motif catalogued as the Plain Double-disc Sign. Its geometry is clear, but its original significance is not.

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Plain Serpent preview
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Plain Serpent

Carved without an accompanying rod or geometric device, the Plain Serpent offers a striking animal form within the Pictish symbol tradition. The example on Glamis 2 in Angus survives on an eighth-century cross-slab, but its original significance is unknown.

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Pythian Falcon preview
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Pythian Falcon

A falcon used in Knights of Pythias insignia as an emblem of vigilance, documented particularly on ceremonial swords.

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Pythian Myrtle Sprig preview
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Pythian Myrtle Sprig

A myrtle sprig used by the Knights of Pythias as an emblem of enduring friendship and fraternal remembrance.

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Quintessence Frame preview
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Quintessence Frame

A contemporary frame built around the alchemical idea of quintessence, the fifth essence beyond the four elements, interpreted here through balance, wisdom and transformation.

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Repeated Pentacles Tablet preview
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Repeated Pentacles Tablet

Repeated pentacle-like forms give this tablet the density of a ritual manuscript page, but its meaning lies in modern ideas of boundary, focus, faith, and protection rather than a copied historical operation.

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Richard Hughson Grocer's Mark preview
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Richard Hughson Grocer's Mark

Personal merchant mark associated with Norwich grocer Richard Hughson.

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Ritual Hand Glyph preview
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Ritual Hand Glyph

Hands are where intention becomes action: they make, offer, protect, promise and point. This original glyph uses that familiar human form as an emblem of personal agency, commitment and choosing to act with purpose rather than simply wishing for change.

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Rod and Ring — Documented Sumerian/Akkadian Motif, Ur III–Old Babylonian preview
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Rod and Ring — Documented Sumerian/Akkadian Motif, Ur III–Old Babylonian

Held rod with a ring or coiled measuring line, extended by a seated deity to a standing ruler in Ur III–Old Babylonian investiture scenes.

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Rose Banner Blade preview
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Rose Banner Blade

Rose, blade and banner are all familiar parts of classic tattoo flash, but the words placed between them made each piece personal. This modern composition keeps that openness, pairing beauty with hardship and leaving space for the name, memory or promise that gives the emblem its real weight.

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Rosette — Documented Sumerian Motif, Late Uruk–Early Dynastic preview
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Rosette — Documented Sumerian Motif, Late Uruk–Early Dynastic

A circular floral disc with even petals around a dotted or ringed centre: a plant-geometric form, not a pointed star.

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Sacred Axis Sign preview
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Sacred Axis Sign

A dominant centreline gives the composition something to align against, turning the axis into a contemporary symbol of guidance, balance, identity, faith, and keeping a chosen principle steady while other things move around it.

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Sanctum Grid Mark preview
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Sanctum Grid Mark

The framework is not hidden behind the finished image: it becomes the image, making the Sanctum Grid Mark a contemporary emblem of identity, balance, strength and resilient systems built from clear relationships.

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Savoy Cross Military Device — Kingdom of Sardinia/Italy, 19th Century–1918 preview
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Savoy Cross Military Device — Kingdom of Sardinia/Italy, 19th Century–1918

The white cross of Savoy, normally set in a red shield, marked the ruling dynasty and appeared on the standards, uniforms and fittings of Sardinian and royal Italian forces.

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Scroll and Key Emblem preview
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Scroll and Key Emblem

The scroll-and-key device used to identify Yale’s Scroll and Key senior society, founded in 1841.

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Seated Antlered Deer preview
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Seated Antlered Deer

A left-facing antlered deer sits rather than stands on the Glamis 1, or Hunter’s Hill, cross-slab in Angus, giving this animal carving an unusually composed posture. Its identity is recognisable, but its Pictish significance remains unknown.

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Serpent and Z-rod preview
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Serpent and Z-rod

A sinuous serpent crossed by an angular Z-shaped rod creates one of the most striking composite signs in the Pictish repertoire. Examples survive on carved stones including Brandsbutt near Inverurie, although the motif's original meaning is unknown.

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Serrated Saw of Utu/Shamash — Documented Akkadian Motif, Akkadian–Old Babylonian preview
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Serrated Saw of Utu/Shamash — Documented Akkadian Motif, Akkadian–Old Babylonian

Akkadian–Old Babylonian serrated blade held by Utu/Shamash as a sun-god attribute, not a free badge and not a carpenter’s tool.

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Shrine Pilgrim Badge preview
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Shrine Pilgrim Badge

Small, affordable shrine badges allowed medieval pilgrims to carry a holy place home with them, serving as wearable signs of devotion, remembrance, and a journey completed.

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Sican Tumi Ceremonial Knife preview
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Sican Tumi Ceremonial Knife

Elaborate Lambayeque-Sican tumis were crescent-bladed ceremonial knives associated with ritual display, elite status, power and funerary deposition.

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Sir Richard Yorke Merchant Mark preview
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Sir Richard Yorke Merchant Mark

Probable merchant mark associated with York civic figure Sir Richard Yorke.

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