File:Shield of the University of Aberdeen.svg

Summary

Blazon InfoField	{{*Escutcheon: Quarterly: 1st Azure a bough pot Or charged with three salmon fishes in fret Proper and containing as many lilies of the garden the dexter in bud the centre full blown and the sinister half blown also Proper flowered Argent issuant from the middle chief amid rays of the sun a dexter hand holding an open book likewise Proper, 2nd Argent a chief paly of six Or and Gules, 3rd Argent a chevron sable between three boars' heads erased Gules armed of the field and langued Azure, 4th Gules a tower triple-towered Argent masoned Sable windows and port of the last. Motto: Initium Sapientiae Timor Domini (The beginning of wisdom is fear of the Lord)}}
Date	12 July 2022
Object history	English: The coat of arms of the University of Aberdeen.
Artist InfoField	ET72
Source	Tower edited from File:Royal_crest_of_Ireland.svg and File:Arms_of_Margaret_Thatcher,_The_Baroness_Thatcher_(Variant).svg Boar heads from File:Coat_of_arms_of_Aberdeenshire_District_Council.svg First quarter edited from File:Coat_of_Arms_of_Jean_de_Saint-Larry,_baron_of_Termes.svg, File:Coat_of_Arms_of_Archbishop_Juan_Francisco_Aragone_(Order_of_Isabella_the_Catholic).svg, File:Badge_of_the_Windsor_Herald.svg, and File:University_of_Bristol_Arms.svg
Other versions	Shield with motto

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