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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pellinore, post: 3557484, member: 74834&quot;]Crazy headgear, in our modern eyes, but naturally these crowns have a symbolic or shamanistic meaning that&#039;s now lost to us. You can compare it with the winged lion of St. Mark or the winged ox of St. Luke.</p><p><br /></p><p>A Senmerv or Senmurv (or Simiurgh) is a benign fable animal from the Iranian mythology. Here&#039;s <a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/pubs/bulletins/1/pdf/3257932.pdf.bannered.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.metmuseum.org/pubs/bulletins/1/pdf/3257932.pdf.bannered.pdf" rel="nofollow">an article</a> from a curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art that explains it admirably.</p><p>The <a href="https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/28381/ThesisLeidenUNadiaHamid.pdf?sequence=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/28381/ThesisLeidenUNadiaHamid.pdf?sequence=1" rel="nofollow">article by Nadia Hamid</a> I mentioned above compares the various forms of headgear found on coinage and on frescoes and other forms of art in Central Asia, which is quite enlightening. If you are interested in those mysterious Sogdian coins, you should take a look at it, too. Coins like these:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]945708[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]945709[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]945710[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]945711[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Or this one with a triple-dotted crescent on his head (sorry, it&#039;s rather worn):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]945712[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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