speech scroll
banderole
phylactery

Two participants are standing in the center of the court with speech scrolls emerging from their mouths.

The rabbit spirit is talking to the lord, with its speech scroll passing directly over the mirror.

Some Mesoamerican speech scrolls are divided lengthwise with each side a different shade.

European speech scrolls may at times be seen in secular works as well and may also contain the name of a person to identify them.

As with many native traditions, use of the speech scroll died out in the decades following the Spanish Conquest.

Speech scrolls are found throughout Mesoamerica.

If the speech scroll represents a tongue, then the tabs may represent teeth, but their meaning or message, if any, is not known.

At times, speech scrolls are decorated with devices that describe the tone of the speech:

The European speech scroll fell out of favor largely due to an increasing interest in realism in painting; the halo had a similar decline.

Distinctive elements of the Cotzumalguapa style include speech scrolls shaped as vines with a variety of flowers and fruits.

Their origins can be traced back to speech scrolls, painted ribbons of paper which trailed from the mouths of speaking subjects, depicting their words.

The 2002 find at the San Andrés site shows a bird, speech scrolls, and glyphs that are similar to the later Mayan hieroglyphs.

A Spaniard's speech scroll in a 16th-century Aztec codex is decorated with feathers to denote "soft, smooth words".

In an engraving at the Maya site of Chichen Itza, a ruler's speech scroll takes the form of a serpent.

Upon entering the church, one can see underneath the choir, fragments of murals showing Eagle and Jaguar warriors dialoguing, indicated by Aztec speech scrolls.

One of the earliest examples of a Mesoamerican speech scroll was found on an Olmec ceramic cylinder seal dated to approximately 650 BC.

Glyphs or similar markings rarely appear on the Mesoamerican speech scroll, although "tabs"-small, triangular or square blocks-are sometimes seen along the outer edge.

Unlike Mesoamerican speech scrolls, European speech scrolls usually contain the spoken words, much like a modern day speech balloon.

Because the words are usually religious in nature, the speech scroll is often written in Latin even when appearing in woodcut illustrations for books written in the vernacular.

A speech scroll, also called a banderole or phylactery in art history, is an illustrative device denoting speech, song, or, in rarer cases, other types of sound.

One of the earliest antecedents to the modern speech bubble were the "speech scrolls", wispy lines that connected first person speech to the mouths of the speakers in Mesoamerican art.

There is a cut in the trunk in the form of a mouth, from which emerges a speech scroll, probably representing the language Nahuatl and by extension the locative suffix "-nāhuac", meaning "near".

While European speech scrolls were drawn as if they were an actual unfurled scroll , Mesoamerican speech scrolls are merely scroll-shaped, looking much like a question mark.

In another 16th century codex, the Selden Codex, two Mixtec rulers (photo above) are shown insulting two ambassadors through the use of "flint knife" icons attached to the speech scrolls.

Below this depiction, separated from it by two interwoven serpents and a talud-tablero, is a scene showing dozens of small human figures, usually wearing only a loincloth and often showing a speech scroll (see photo below).

Over one shoulder was a banderole of cotton thistles representing tails.

A banderole with the word cras ("tomorrow" in Latin) emerges from the crow's mouth.

A Banderole (Fr.

The commissioning pennant in ships may end in a point, but they can also be forked, in which case it is also called a banderole.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules a Banderole Argent in bend.

No plume or nobloy fluttered from his plain tilting salade, and even his lance was devoid of the customary banderole.

One lone, long pubic scroll had sprung loose from its place beneath her panties and unfurled against the creamy field of her thigh like a banderole.

In addition to the frog tongue, in whose banderole she painted a fly, Ellen Cherry gave Boomer the black, bumpy tongue of a chow dog.

Agnes rejects him, with the words Illi sum desponsata cui angeli serviunt ("I am betrothed to him who the angels serve") in a banderole above.

The banderole above says Ecce quod concupivi iam teneo ("Behold what I have desired I now possess").

Each panel includes a text inscribed on a floating ribbon or "banderole", while the identities of the figures are carved on the lower border of each panel.

In heraldry, a banderole is a streamer hanging from beneath the crook of a bishop's crosier and folding over the staff, and for other small streamers or ribbons.

A speech scroll, also called a banderole or phylactery in art history, is an illustrative device denoting speech, song, or, in rarer cases, other types of sound.

The red and silver banderole is a reminder of the Cistercian abbey in Gutenzell with whom the Freiherrn of Freyberg shared authority over the village from 1447 onwards.

A second squire held aloft his master's lance, from the extremity of which fluttered a small banderole, or streamer, bearing a cross of the same form with that embroidered upon his cloak.

Bannerol, in its main uses is the same as banderole, and is the term especially applied to banners about a yard square carried at the funerals of great men and placed over the tomb.

A Banderole is a small flag or streamer carried on the lance of a knight, or a long narrow flag, with cleft end flying form the mast-head of a ship in battle.

The second rider bore a slim lance of sharp glass, from which a long banderole of sulphurous yellow, charged with a nine-pointed star of deep black, slowly uncoiled behind him in his flight.

Christopher bowed to the corpse and gave the child an envelope filled with piasters, two bottles of Veuve Cliquot, and a satin banderole on which was written a compliment to the dead man.

A banderole precised the use of the one penny stamp: "INTERINSULAR POSTAGE".

Radio was a latecomer, and for the most part artillery observation planes communicated with their batteries by dropping messages (generally in the form of marked-up maps) in capsules attached to a banderole, or long streamer.

With its wide border of spiky blossoms enclosing the guild's crests ("Give thanks to God" appears on a banderole), the rug was used as a table covering, as were most Asian carpets imported to Europe.

But voila, mon petit, here comes Chandos and his company, and there is many a pensil and banderole among yonder squadrons which show that the best blood of England is riding under his banners."

Late Gothic Sibyls, each with her emblem and a single line of prophecy, lettered on a fluttering banderole, were fixtures of Late Gothic illuminations, in 14th and 15th-century France and Germany.

This translates into straight-out propaganda in a full-length portrait of the independence leader Simón Bolívar, his heroism trumpeted in a scarlet banderole, by the Peruvian painter José Gil de Castro, an artist to remember.

"Then he would store the phylactery somewhere visible from here."

Not in the mouth or anything, but right in the phylacteries.

Then while she is bathing, a spider appears in a phylactery.

The phylactery can be an object of any kind.

"Hold onto those pieces until we find the phylactery."

He loves his wife, Shelley, who is turned on by his phylacteries.

He prayed and put on Tefillin (phylacteries) that day for the first time in his life.

The Jewish holidays, the phylacteries - he found it all "totally alien."

In your wife's declaration prepared for Customs clearance she lists two phylacteries.

A threat arcane, a fearful bane Within an old phylactery.

The phylactery with the holy apophthegms which was around his arm came undone.

When Elisha was overtaken, he took off the phylacteries and hid them in his hands.

Still banded, Daniel noticed, with the strap marks of the morning phylacteries.

The most common type of phylactery is a gem with a wide variety of colors.

A crown (sometimes referred to as a phylactery), is placed upon the dead layman's head.

They were between him and his phylactery.

Inside were prayer books in Hebrew and phylacteries.

It also gains a vessel called a phylactery, or soul jar, in which its spirit is stored.

During his personal quest, he asks the player to help him find his phylactery and destroy it.

Don't you think a thousand citizens of Shade have a better chance of finding the phylactery than we do?"

Some families were extremely observant, "wearing two types of phylacteries", while others believed "in no Judaism at all."

When he overcomes the golem, he finds the phylactery in its center.

He wore no phylacteries, and was as far away as possible from Pecksniffian pretensions.

We will find the phylactery, I promise you, but Aris should be finished with his passage by now.

We did not ask for the right to wear tefilin (phylacteries); such behavior may not be protected by law.