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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 3378585, member: 82322&quot;]I suspect the lion scalp symbolizes the king.&nbsp; In Assyria, lion hunting was a ritualized activity reserved for kings.&nbsp; I suspect it was similar in Greece.</p><p><br /></p><p>No one knows about the winged boar.&nbsp; <a href="https://www.theoi.com/Ther/Khrysaor.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.theoi.com/Ther/Khrysaor.html" rel="nofollow">One theory</a> is that the boar is Chrysaor, born of Medusa as twin to Pegasos.&nbsp; The mother and sibling have wings; it must be a family trait.</p><p><br /></p><p>There was an actual winged monstrous boar in Ionia.&nbsp; Barclay Head wrote “The distinctive badge of the city [of Klazomenai] appears from the later inscribed coins to have been a winged boar; cf. Aelian (<i>De Natura Animalium</i>, xii. 38), who relates, on the authority of Artemon, that such a monster once infested the Clazomenian territory.”</p><p><br /></p><p>Artemon of Klazomenai invented a battering ram.&nbsp; He was with Pericles at Samos during the Samian war.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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