Editing Notitia Dignitatum (section)

== Depictions ==
{{See also|Taijitu#Similar symbols}}
The ''Notitia'' contains symbols similar to the diagram which later came to be known as [[Taijitu|yin and yang symbol]].<ref name="Giovanni Monastra (2000)">Giovanni Monastra: ''{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20040313112451/http://www.estovest.net/tradizione/yinyang_en.html#t24 The "Yin-Yang" among the Insignia of the Roman Empire?]}}'', ''Sophia'', Bd. 6, Nr. 2 (2000) </ref><ref name="Isabelle Robinet (2008), 934">Isabelle Robinet: "Taiji tu. Diagram of the Great Ultimate", in: Fabrizio Pregadio (ed.): ''The Encyclopedia of Taoism A−Z'', Routledge, Abingdon (Oxfordshire) 2008, {{ISBN|978-0-7007-1200-7}}, pp. 934−936 (934)</ref><ref name="Helmut Nickel (1991), 146, 5">Helmut Nickel: "The Dragon and the Pearl", ''Metropolitan Museum Journal'', Bd. 26 (1991), S. 146, Fn. 5</ref> The infantry units ''armigeri defensores seniores'' ("shield-bearers") and ''Mauri Osismiaci'' had a shield design which corresponds to the dynamic, clockwise version of the symbol, albeit with red dots, instead of dots of the opposite colour.<ref name="Giovanni Monastra (2000)"/> The emblem of the ''Thebaei'', another Western Roman infantry regiment, featured a pattern of concentric circles comparable to its static version. The Roman patterns predate the earliest [[Taoism|Taoist]] versions by almost seven hundred years,<ref name="Giovanni Monastra (2000)"/> but there is no evidence for a relation between the two.