Editing Christogram (section)

===Iota Chi (IX)===
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[[File:Chrisme Constantinople.jpg|thumb|A IX monogram from a 4th century [[Sarcophagus]] from [[Constantinople]]]]

An early form of the monogram of Christ, found in early Christian [[ossuaries]] in [[Palestine (region)|Palaestina]], was formed by superimposing the first (capital) letters of the Greek words for [[Jesus]] and [[Christ]], i.e. [[iota (letter)|iota]] '''Ι''' and [[chi (letter)|chi]] '''Χ''', so that this [[monogram]] means "Jesus Christ".<ref name="Bagatti">{{cite book |last=Bagatti |first=Bellarmino |author-link= Bellarmino Bagatti |year=1984 |title=The Church from the Circumcision: History and Archaeology of the Judaeo-Christians |series=Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, Collectio Minor, n.2 |location=Jerusalem |publisher=Franciscan Print. Press |oclc=17529706}}</ref>{{rp|166}}