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<p>[QUOTE="Finn235, post: 3720558, member: 98035"][ATTACH=full]997293[/ATTACH] </p><p>Not the easiest to see, but Agrippa on the left of these Nemausus pieces wears a wreath in the shape of the prow of a ship.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=90248]@Spaniard[/USER] I can't remember the source, but a Byzantine in attendance at the coronation of a Sassanian emperor (Khusro II maybe?) noted that the crowns were very much real, and so heavy they had to be suspended from the ceiling by chains; the emperor would slide into the headgear for the coronation. I had always assumed them to be symbolic![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Finn235, post: 3720558, member: 98035"][ATTACH=full]997293[/ATTACH] Not the easiest to see, but Agrippa on the left of these Nemausus pieces wears a wreath in the shape of the prow of a ship. [USER=90248]@Spaniard[/USER] I can't remember the source, but a Byzantine in attendance at the coronation of a Sassanian emperor (Khusro II maybe?) noted that the crowns were very much real, and so heavy they had to be suspended from the ceiling by chains; the emperor would slide into the headgear for the coronation. I had always assumed them to be symbolic![/QUOTE]
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