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Translingual
Etymology
The scepter of the Roman queen of the gods, Juno, surmounted by a star. The scepter took various forms in the 19th century, some rather elaborate, but soon the original printer's hack of an asterisk ⟨*⟩ over an inverted dagger ⟨⸸⟩ was settled on for typographic convenience.
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A printer's hack is the original published glyph of 1804
A variant published in 1840
Variant with an orb
An elaborate variant
Symbol on a rose background
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