Examples of emblem

• Designs of this sort for emblems and coats of arms also served as a kind of calling card for the artist himself.

• As a title used exclusively by rulers, the glyphs render the particular "emblem" believed to be the reference name of a political entity.

• In this specific musical sense it is a historical emblem of the missions.

• Like these, stamps showed the emblem of the lion and the sun and/or the portrait of the reigning monarch.

• In emblem books, abstract concepts are personified by a person, typically a woman, whose costume and attributes are explained in an accompanying text.

• This suggests less competition for prestige within the society and among the different political units addressed by emblem glyphs.

• Furthermore, the mostly fruitless attempts to identify emblem glyphs have been made more difficult by fewer and less well-understood hieroglyphic texts.

• These symbols functioned as emblems of the sources of power for the shaman who earned the right to wear them.