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A cross with four curved shapes in its quarters.
Also known as: Serbian cross with firesteels, Ocila cross, Four S cross, Cross with four curved shapes
The Serbian cross places four firesteels — Cyrillic letter S in one reading, fire-striking tools in another — in the quarters of a cross. Which they are is unresolved: the ocila reading and the four-S reading are both current, and the medieval evidence does not settle it.
Denotes Serbia and the Serbian Orthodox Church, drawn as a cross with four identical curved devices in its quarters.
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Has its four devices read either as ocila, fire-striking steels, or as four Cyrillic letters S; the two readings are both current and the medieval evidence does not decide between them.
The firesteel and four-S readings are both long-established. This entry reports both and does not adjudicate; the Byzantine tetragrammic cross the design derives from used the letter B, which complicates both.
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Derives from the Byzantine tetragrammic cross, which carried four beta letters in the same positions.
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A white or silver cross with equal arms on a red ground, each of its four quarters containing an identical curved shape resembling a letter C with serifs, facing away from the centre.