Serrated crown
A serrated crown is a headband with twelve prongs as a headdress. Alternative names are crown of David, heathen crown and crown of rays . It is a tire crown with spikes and no decorations. Across all forms, the prongs placed on the forehead band in cuboid, semicircular or gable form are called " pinnae " .
The origin of this crown is believed to be in pre-Christian cultures, for example in the attribute of the gloriole , which often had seven rays or points in images of the god Helios or Sol . According to tradition, the twelve points of later crowns symbolize the twelve months of a year.
From the 3rd century AD onwards, some Roman emperors had themselves depicted with a serrated crown as an attribute of the imperial god Sol invictus .
In the representation in the heraldry , seven visible pointed points are drawn, as they could be seen in the former middle state coat of arms of Austria .
In the coat of arms of San Marino there is a serrated crown as a hoop of a bow crown.
literature
- ↑ Gert Oswald : Lexicon of Heraldry . Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim 1984, ISBN 3-411-02149-7 .