Polos
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https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/tag/107842
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- "The polos crown (plural poloi; Greek: πόλος) is a high cylindrical crown worn by mythological goddesses of the Ancient Near East and Anatolia and adopted by the ancient Greeks for imaging the mother goddesses Rhea and Cybele and Hera.
The word also meant an axis or pivot and is cognate with the English, ´pole´. It was often open at the top with hair cascading down from the sides, or it could be reduced to a ring.
In the classical period, mortal women seem not to have worn poloi, but they are more commonly seen in terracotta statues of women from the Mycenaean period, thus the use in statues of goddesses can be seen as a deliberate archaism. " - (en.wikipedia.org 21.01.2022)
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Archaischer Terrakottakopf einer Göttin mit hohem Polos
Unteritalisch, um 500 v....
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Image: Winckelmann-Museum Stendal - CC BY-NC-SA -
Götterversammlung
Die Deutung der Szenen auf...
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Image: Museum August Kestner - CC BY-NC-SA -
Büste der Göttin Demeter (?)
Die in Form einer Büste...
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Image: Museum August Kestner - CC BY-NC-SA
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