Pithon
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Illustrations:[edit | edit source]
From period source:
Pictorial Dictionary of SCA Heraldry (3rd edition):
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Illustration/s from Brickbat's Armorial Stash - [[2]]:
Pennsic Traceable Art Project:
Sources:[edit | edit source]
Academy of St. Gabriel "Medieval Heraldry Archive" - http://www.s-gabriel.org/heraldry/ Laurel Armory Articles - http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/armory_articles.html Period Armorials
Precedents:[edit | edit source]
Precedents of the SCA College of Arms - [[3]] Morsulus Heralds Website - [[4]] (to search the LoARs and Precedents) Restatement Wiki - [[5]] (restatements of Precedents)
From the November 1999 LoAR: Volker Ælfwine. Device. Sable chaussé papellony vert and argent, a pithon displayed argent. Conflicts with Reynald il Bianco, Per chevron inverted sable and gules, overall a winged serpent erect displayed argent with a CD for the change of field. The pithon on Reynald’s device has bird wings, but as both types of wings are used in period this is not worth a difference. It also conflicts with Artus Falconieri, Quarterly pean and purpure, a wyvern displayed argent; in period a heraldic pithon was a variant of a wyvern. It is clear of Tyra Stewart of Moray, reblazoned elsewhere in the letter, Azure, a pithon erect wings addorsed gorged of a collar trailing three links argent; an examination of the blazon showed that the wings in Tyra’s device were addorsed, not displayed. (11/1999) [[6]]
From the January 1995 LoAR: "[a winged serpent vs a bat-winged tree python] The change to the type of wings is too slight to count for the necessary second. [i.e. there is not a significant difference between a bird-winged and a bat-winged creature.] [1995 LoAR]
From 1985 Precedents of the Tenure of Baldwin of Erebor:
SCA heraldry uses pithon (with an "i") for winged serpents, and natural python (with a "y") for nonvenomous constrictor snakes of the boa family. [BoE, 14 Jul 85, p.2]
An heraldic pithon is a winged serpent. [BoE, 10 Mar 85, p.11] [[7]]
The [[8]]: