Gallery
-
The Assyrian star in the 1968 flag is borrowed from the ancient Assyro-Babylonian symbol of Shamash.
-
The "feather-robed archer" figure in the 1968 flag is inspired by Assyrian Empire period iconography.
-
Star symbol in the Mor Gabriel monastery.
-
The flag of Iraq 1959-1963 included a red star symbolic of the Assyrian minority.
-
Syriac flag
Read more about this topic: Assyrian Flag
Famous quotes containing the word gallery:
“Each morning the manager of this gallery substituted some new picture, distinguished by more brilliant or harmonious coloring, for the old upon the walls.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de’ Medici placed beside a milliner’s doll.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. Teach him something of natural history, and you place in his hands a catalogue of those which are worth turning round.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)