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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lehmansterms, post: 2894298, member: 80804&quot;]Of course it should be noted that Elagabalus was not shy about having himself portrayed wearing one of his favorite decorations on his crown. Typically called, in typically puritanical tradition &quot;The Horn&quot; - it was, in fact, a mummified bull&#039;s penis:</p><p><img src="http://www.stoa.org/albums/album97/ML_02_Elagabalus_SACERD_den.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>I am not sure what the significance might have been. It may have been related to worship of the Apis-bull, but Elagabalus had been high-priest of his own cult which worshiped a large stone - probably a meteorite. He would have been likely to have had more of an inside track on various other Eastern cults during this period of proliferation of cults, many of which were hybrids containing elements of both Eastern and Western gods and traditions, than any outside the priesthood. It may have held some specific cross-over importance for him in his own sect.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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