Tau cross

The tau cross is a T-shaped cross, sometimes with all three ends of the cross expanded.^[1] It is called a “tau cross” because it is shaped like the Greek letter tau,^[2] which in its upper-case form has the same appearance as Latin letter T.

Another name for the same object is Saint Anthony's cross^[3] or Saint Anthony cross,^[4] a name given to it because of its association with Saint Anthony of Egypt.

It is also called a crux commissa,^[5] one of the four basic types of iconographic representations of the cross.^[6]