The ''divellion'' or ''dibellion'' () was a symbol of the
late Byzantine Empire, the Emperor's personal banner. It was carried by the ''
skouterios The ''skouterios'' (, "shield-bearer") was a Byzantine court office in the 13th–14th centuries, whose role was to carry the emperor's personal standard, the ''divellion''.
History and functions
The office is very obscure, and is rarely mentioned ...
'' ("shield-bearer"), alongside the Imperial shield, on official events.
Emperor
Stefan Dušan
Stephen (honorific), Stefan Uroš IV Dušan ( sr-Cyrl, Стефан Урош IV Душан), also known as Dušan the Mighty ( sr-Cyrl, Душан Силни; – 20 December 1355), was the King of Serbia from 8 September 1331 and Emperor of th ...
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Serbia
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(r. 1331–55) also adopted the Imperial ''divellion'', which was purple and had a golden cross in the center.
See also
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Byzantine flags and insignia
For most of its history, the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire did not use heraldry in the Western European sense of permanent motifs transmitted through hereditary right. Various large aristocratic families employed certain symbols to identify th ...
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Labarum
The labarum ( or λάβουρον) was a '' vexillum'' (military standard) that displayed the "Chi-Rho" symbol ☧, a christogram formed from the first two Greek letters of the word "Christ" (, or Χριστός) – '' Chi'' (χ) and ''Rho'' (� ...
References
Sources
*{{cite book, last=Hendry, first=Michael F., title=Catalogue of the Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection, volume=4, issue=1, chapter=Imperial Insignia, chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NN1xNdYH6n0C&pg=PA175, year=1966, publisher=Dumbarton Oaks, isbn=978-0-88402-233-6, pages=175–
2nd millennium in the Byzantine Empire
Byzantine regalia
Serbian Empire
Obsolete national flags