Mural Crown

[Sean Manning]

On the same principle, the ''zigzag" style of crown looks like Southwest Asian battlements. Its common in Achaemenid period art such as coins.

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S. Maria Antiqua (Rome)







Serbo Campagnano, 13th century



( stylised : )







modern

(as some theories also suggest : )



Holding a Corona muralis?


Of course these pictures are by no means proof that the crowned depiction of St Mary comes defitenely from Cybele or even Isis. However, the theory that early Christians used well known pagan imagery/iconography is not invalid imho, cf. the Alexander face on many of the early depictions of Jesus of Nazareth.

(still looking for the image of the wooden early medieval statuette on which she wears a city wall crown)

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