divellion
{{Short description|Personal banner of the Emperor of the Byzantine Empire}}
File:Divellion of Emperor Dušan.svg
The divellion or dibellion ({{langx|el|διβέλλιον}}) was a symbol of the late Byzantine Empire, the Emperor's personal banner.{{cite book|author=Elizabeth Piltz|title=Costume of the Byzantine court officials in the Paleologue era|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jEDrAAAAMAAJ|year=1994|publisher=Almqvist & Wiksell Internat.|isbn=978-91-554-3336-9|quote=Il se tenait devant les oriflammes impériales portant le dibellion, marque personelle de l'empereur, et le bouclier impérial}} It was carried by the skouterios ("shield-bearer"), alongside the Imperial shield, on official events.{{cite book|author1=Jenny Albani|title=Byzantium: an oecumenical empire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9lJoAAAAMAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Hellenic Ministry of Culture|isbn=978-960-214-523-4|quote=These imperial symbols were usually carried on official occasions not by the emperor himself, but by an official: the skoutarios holds the divellion and the king's shield (Pseudo-Kodinos III, p. 183. 12-13)}} Emperor Stefan Dušan of Serbia (r. 1331–55) also adopted the Imperial divellion, which was purple and had a golden cross in the center.{{cite book|author=Milić Milićević|title=Grb Srbije: razvoj kroz istoriju|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nyNYAAAAMAAJ|year=1995|page=22|publisher=Službeni Glasnik |isbn=978-86-7549-047-0 }}
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- {{cite book|last=Hendry|first=Michael F.|title=Catalogue of the Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection|volume=4|issue=1|chapter=Imperial Insignia|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NN1xNdYH6n0C&pg=PA175|year=1966|publisher=Dumbarton Oaks|isbn=978-0-88402-233-6|pages=175–}}