The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ankh \Ankh\, n. [Egypt.] (Egypt. Arch[ae]ol.)
A tau cross with a loop at the top, used as an attribute or sacred emblem, symbolizing generation or enduring life. Called also crux ansata.
an amulet or piece of jewelry shaped like an ankh[1].
Wikipedia
Crux Ansata, subtitled 'An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church' by H. G. Wells is a (96 page) wartime book first published in 1943 by Penguin Books, Hammonsworth (Great Britain): Penguin Special No. 129. The U. S. edition was copyrighted and published in 1944 by Agora Publishing Company, New York, with a portrait frontispiece and an appendix of an interview with Wells recorded by John Rowland. The U.S. edition of 144 pages went into a third printing in August 1946.
H. G. Wells living in London under the regular bombings from across the English Channel extensively attacks Pope Pius XII and Roman Catholicism, beginning his polemic with "Why do we not bomb Rome?"
The book also forms a basic history of the Roman Catholic church and fulfils a positive propaganda role.
Usage examples of "crux ansata".
Fastened to the wall above it was an ancient ankh or crux ansata, the Egyptian cross with looped top, symbolizing procreation and life.
Their key symbol was the looped cross of ancient Egypt, the crux ansata -- the sign of life.
Turning away from the windows, Blake noticed that the cobwebbed cross above the altar was not of the ordinary kind, but resembled the primordial ankh or crux ansata of shadowy Egypt.
The prototype was not the Egyptian, but the Babylonian 'crux ansata', the lower member of which constitutes a conical support for the oval or sphere above it.
By shape the Ankh (or Crux Ansata) suggests the formula by which this going is effected in actual practice.
It was a necklace rich and simple-a heavy gold chain with tripled linkage, supporting a large gold ankh, a crux ansata.
He held a wooden staff, nine feet high, on top of which was carved a crux ansata.
Lightly engraved on its domed face was the looped cross, the crux ansata.