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Aramean-Syriac flag

Syriac-Aramean Flag

Field	Value
Name	Syriac-Aramean flag
Image	Flag of the Syriac-Aramaic People.svg
Noborder
Use	Ethnic flag
Adoption	1982
Design	Winged sun on red background
Designer	Joanis Almasudi Youssef

The Aramean flag or Syriac-Aramean flag is the flag of the Syriac-Aramean people. A first version, similar to the current one, was developed in 1980 by Bahro Suryoyo ("Syriac light"), a Syriac journal part of the Syrianska Riksförbundet i Sverige (). The current version was developed in early 1982.

The World Council of Arameans, an international non-government organization, approved of the flag on July 16, 1983, in New Jersey. The design was based on the Winged sun symbol, replacing the sun with a torch symbolising the Holy Spirit in Christianity.

Symbolism

The design is specifically based on a relief depicting Gilgamesh between two bull-men supporting a winged sun disk, excavated in 1927 by the German archaeologist Max von Oppenheim (1860-1946) and the French semitologist André Dupont-Sommer (1900-1983) at Tell Halaf the former Aramean city-state of Bit Bahiani which is located on the border of Tur Abdin region, today located in the Al Hasakah governorate of northeastern Syria. The relief was part of the entrance of the palace of the Aramean king Kapara. http://imagery.trubox.ca/935/ Relief Depicting Gilgamesh Between Two Bull-Men Supporting a Winged Sun Disk, Fr.Tell-Halaf, Syria Syrianerna – En nation i förskringring, Assad Sauma Assad, 2005

The main characteristic of the flag is the eagle, which stands for strength and power. The sun disk is replaced by a flame to symbolize, according to Syrianska Riksförbundet, the Holy Spirit and the Christian heritage of the Syriac peoples. Syrianska Riksförbundet further mean that the four stars represent the rivers in the Aramean homeland: Tigris, Euphrates, the Gihon and the Pishon; the red background of the flag was chosen to represent the blood that was spilled during the Syriac Genocide; the yellow color represents the hope of an independent Syriac-Aramean state. It is intended to represent "the Aramean (Syriac) nation in the Aramean homeland and in the Aramean diaspora".

Gallery

File:Flag of the Syriac-Aramaic People.svg|Syriac flag, adopted in 1980 File:Arameiska Flaggan.jpg|Earlier version of the flag, used by the Aramean Democratic Organization File:AleppoNMTellHalafGilg14Jh.jpg|Relief found in Tell Halaf

Notes

References

(18 June 2001). "Syriac-Aramaic People (Syria)". Crwflags.com.
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.
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.
''Die aramäisch-assyrische Stadt Guzana. Ein Rückblick auf die Ausgrabungen Max von Oppenheims in Tell Halaf.'' (German) Schriften der Max Freiherr von Oppenheim-Stiftung. H. 15. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2005, {{ISBN. 3-447-05106-X.
"''Syrianer - en nation i förskingring'', p. 24, 2004, Syrianska Riksförbundet i Sverige". Syrianska Riksförbundet i Sverige.
[http://flags-of-the-world.net/flags/sy%7Darama.html#des flag of Syriac-Aramaic People (Syria) flags], [http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/Flags/sy%7Darama.html Syriac-Aramaic People (Syria)]
"Syriac-Aramaic People (Syria)". Crwflags.com.

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