Aramean-Syriac flag
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Use | Ethnic flag |
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Adopted | 1980 |
Design | Winged sun on red background |
Designed by | Bahro Suryoyo |
The Aramean flag, or Syriac-Aramean flag, is the ethnic flag designated for the Aramean people, adopted in 1980 by the Aramean journal Bahro Suryoyo of the Syriac federation in Sweden (Swedish: Syrianska Riksförbundet).[1] Intended to represent their nation and homeland as well as the Aramean diaspora,[2] the flag was design based on the Winged Sun symbol, replacing the sun by a torch symbolising the Holy Spirit in Christianity.
The design is specifically based on a relief depicting Gilgamesh between two bull-men supporting a winged sun disk, excavated by the French semitologist André Dupont-Sommer (1900-1983) at Tell Halaf in the former Aramean city-state of Bit Bahiani, today located in the Al Hasakah governorate of northeastern Syria.[3] The red background was chosen to represent the blood that was spilled in the Aramean genocide. The yellow represents hope.[4] It is intended to represent "the Aramean (Syriac) nation in the Aramean homeland and in the Aramean diaspora".[5] The Aramean flag is advocated by a number of Syriac Christians, most notably members of the Syriac Orthodox Church and Syriac Catholic Church.
Gallery
- Aramean flag, adopted in 1980[6]
- Assyrian flag, adopted in 1968[7]
- Gozarto flag, used by the Syriac Military Council representing Syriac-Assyrian people in SDF-controlled Northern Syria [9]
See also
References
- ↑ Atto, Naures (2011). Hostages in the Homeland, Orphans in the Diaspora: Identity Discourses among the Assyrian/Syriac Elites in the European Diaspora. Leiden University Press.
- ↑ "Syriac-Aramaic People (Syria)". Crwflags.com. 18 June 2001. Archived from the original on 4 December 2008. Retrieved 16 November 2008.
- ↑ Relief Depicting Gilgamesh Between Two Bull-Men Supporting a Winged Sun Disk, Fr.Tell-Halaf, Syria Archived June 7, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. Syrianerna – En nation i förskringring, Assad Sauma Assad, 2005
- ↑ "Syrianer - en nation i förskingring, p. 24, 2004, Syrianska Riksförbundet i Sverige" (PDF). Syrianska Riksförbundet i Sverige. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
- ↑ flag of Syriac-Aramaic People (Syria) flags, Syriac-Aramaic People (Syria)
- ↑ "Syriac-Aramaic People (Syria)". Crwflags.com. Archived from the original on 4 December 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-16.
- ↑ "Assyria". Crwflags.com. Archived from the original on 12 October 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-16.
- ↑ "Chaldean Flag . . . from A to Z". Retrieved 2018-08-19.
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/syriancivilwar/comments/60rpny/syriac_miliary_council_waves_new_flag/