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Lararium Guardian Serpent preview
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Lararium Guardian Serpent

A serpent approaching the household altar, drawn from Pompeian lararium paintings where paired snakes accompanied domestic ritual and good fortune.

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Cave Canem Threshold Mosaic preview
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Cave Canem Threshold Mosaic

A chained dog at a Pompeian doorway accompanied by CAVE CANEM—“Beware of the dog”—as a direct warning at the household threshold.

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Lar Familiaris Figure preview
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Lar Familiaris Figure

A youthful Roman household guardian whose presence in the lararium invoked protection, health, and prosperity for the family.

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Sulphur Capsule Amulet preview
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Sulphur Capsule Amulet

A fourth-century Romano-British gold capsule from the Thetford Treasure, sealed around sulphur whose intended protective or medicinal action remains unknown.

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Evil Eye Attack Charm preview
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Evil Eye Attack Charm

A Roman terracotta charm in which two phallus-headed figures attack the evil eye with a saw, turning protection into a vivid counter-assault.

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Roman Bulla Pendant preview
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Roman Bulla Pendant

A rounded Roman pendant worn especially by children as a personal safeguard against the evil eye.

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Winged Phallus Tintinnabulum preview
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Winged Phallus Tintinnabulum

A fantastical Roman hanging charm combining a winged phallus with bells to protect a household and attract good fortune.

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Phallic Pendant preview
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Phallic Pendant

A deliberately provocative Roman amulet that used phallic and genital imagery to repel the evil eye.

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Phoenix Flame Crest preview
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Phoenix Flame Crest

The phoenix makes destruction part of a larger cycle: death is followed by renewed life. This flame crest turns that long-lived story into an emblem of renewal, hope, resilience and transformation after loss.

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Hercules Club Pendant preview
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Hercules Club Pendant

A fourth-century Romano-British gold club pendant that invokes Hercules through his defining weapon, while leaving its wearer’s intended benefit uncertain.

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Gorgon Mask Seal preview
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Gorgon Mask Seal

The ancient gorgoneion confronts the viewer head-on: staring eyes, bared teeth, tongue and snakes turn the face itself into a warning. This modern seal preserves that directness as an emblem of protection, danger and defiance.

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Harpy Wing Device preview
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Harpy Wing Device

Harpies arrive suddenly and take things away. Ancient Greek scenes of the creatures carrying off Phineus's food give this isolated wing a sharper meaning: swift disruption, unavoidable consequence and the unsettling power of forces that cannot be held.

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Hekataion Crossroads Figure preview
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Hekataion Crossroads Figure

A triple-bodied figure of Hekate associated with pathways and crossroads, expressing guardianship at places of passage and uncertain direction.

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Isiac Sistrum preview
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Isiac Sistrum

A Roman bronze sistrum used in Isiac worship, whose jingling ritual sound was understood to ward off evil.

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Chnoubis Gem preview
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Chnoubis Gem

A Roman-period gem of the lion-headed serpent Chnoubis, a protective figure whose gem type was especially associated with digestive healing.

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Protective Prayer Amulet preview
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Protective Prayer Amulet

A Roman-period agate amulet whose protection was carried in an inscribed prayer rather than a single pictorial emblem.

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Greek-Letter Incantation Gem preview
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Greek-Letter Incantation Gem

A Roman onyx amulet densely inscribed on both sides with an incantation in Greek letters, preserving protective words whose precise force is not stated in the museum record.

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Safe Childbirth Lamella preview
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Safe Childbirth Lamella

A Roman gold lamella inscribed in Greek for Fabia, daughter of Terentia, as a personalized charm intended to help her give birth safely.

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Abrasax Gem preview
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Abrasax Gem

A Roman magical gem showing Abrasax with rooster head, human torso, serpent legs, shield, and whip—a composite image used for protection.

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Pegasus Star Crest preview
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Pegasus Star Crest

Pegasos carries Bellerophon into an encounter that would otherwise be unreachable. The added star is modern, but together horse, wings and celestial point create an emblem of aspiration, guidance and the courage to rise toward a difficult goal.

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Phoenix Ash Device preview
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Phoenix Ash Device

Ash places the emphasis after the fire rather than during it. Drawing on later phoenix traditions of death and renewed life, this device becomes an emblem of loss endured, what remains, and the possibility of beginning again.

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Chi-Rho Monogram preview
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Chi-Rho Monogram

Formed from the Greek letters Chi and Rho, this ancient Christogram became one of Christianity's most enduring signs of Christ and continued to appear throughout medieval religious art.

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Crescent Lunula Amulet preview
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Crescent Lunula Amulet

A crescent-shaped amulet from Roman-period Egypt associated with divine lunar protection.

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Mano Fica Hand preview
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Mano Fica Hand

A clenched hand with the thumb thrust between two fingers, used in Roman amulets as a provocative defence against the evil eye.

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Priapus Garden Guardian preview
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Priapus Garden Guardian

An explicitly phallic figure of Priapus, placed in the Greco-Roman imagination as a guardian of gardens, vines, bees, and flocks.

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Wheel of Fortune preview
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Wheel of Fortune

The medieval Wheel of Fortune turns kings upward and casts them down again, a stark reminder that status, success and worldly fortune can change without warning.

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Cerberus Gate Mark preview
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Cerberus Gate Mark

Cerberus is defined less by the exact number of his heads than by his duty: guarding the boundary of the Greek Underworld. The gate mark turns that role into an emblem of vigilance, protection and thresholds that are not meant to be crossed freely.

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Chimera Flame Crest preview
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Chimera Flame Crest

The Greek Chimaera combines several threats in one body, and later descriptions strengthen its association with fire. This modern flame crest turns that concentrated danger into an emblem of courage, transformation and facing complexity under pressure.

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Crab BARCHA Gem preview
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Crab BARCHA Gem

A Roman yellow-jasper magical gem combining a crab, a BARCHA word variant, and the seven Greek vowels, while leaving its precise intended benefit unresolved.

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Hydra Knot Device preview
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Hydra Knot Device

Cut one Hydra head away and the problem returns multiplied. Interlacing its many necks into a knot turns that Greek monster into a modern emblem of recurrence, resilience and the difficult patterns that cannot be solved by repeating the same response.

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Winged Thunderbolt Pendant preview
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Winged Thunderbolt Pendant

A Roman gold pendant combining a winged thunderbolt with suspended Medusa masks, catalogued as probably amuletic but without a recorded personal purpose.

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Laurel preview
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Laurel

Laurel was a clear late-Victorian emblem of glory, continuing an older classical association with honour and victory while period dictionaries distinguished several other plants bearing the laurel name.

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Alpha and Omega Mark preview
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Alpha and Omega Mark

Alpha and Omega, the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet, became a Christian declaration of Christ as beginning and end and remained a powerful motif in medieval art.

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About roman symbols

Roman symbols and their researched historical, cultural, and practical relationships.

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21 matching symbols

Greek & Roman Protective Signs, c. 600 BCE-400 CE

Greek Roman Protective Signs C 600 Bce 400 Ce gathers 25 symbols shaped around 25 distinct protective and apotropaic forms tied to named Greek, Hellenistic, Roman Republican, Roman Imperial, or Late Roman objects and contexts from c. 600 BCE to 400 CE, with each mark chosen for clarity, historical resonance, and a strong editorial silhouette.

8 matching symbols

Symbolic Forms Mythological Creature Collection

Symbolic Forms Mythological Creature gathers 25 symbols shaped around mythic beasts and legendary creature symbols shaped as compact, cut-safe emblem forms, with each mark chosen for clarity, historical resonance, and a strong editorial silhouette.

3 matching symbols

Medieval Pilgrim Protective Symbols (1100-1600) Collection

Medieval Pilgrim Protective Symbols (1100-1600) gathers 25 symbols shaped around pilgrim badges, journey signs, devotional monograms, protective emblems, shrine souvenirs, manuscript motifs, and symbols of faith, endurance, healing, identity, and safe return, with each mark chosen for clarity, historical resonance, and a strong editorial silhouette.

1 matching symbol

Botanical Silhouettes — Flowers, Leaves & Plants in Simplified Nineteenth-Century Style

Botanical Silhouettes brings together 25 flowers, leaves and plants rendered as bold, simplified botanical emblems. Inspired by nineteenth-century botanical illustration and decorative arts, the collection focuses on recognisable plant forms translated into clean silhouettes suitable for engraving, cutting and print. Many of these plants also appear in historical traditions of botanical symbolism. Where a historical symbolic association is documented, individual entries should distinguish period evidence from later or modern interpretations.