Bactrian seal of Hunnic-era person wearing a 10-flower crown 4th-6th C. CE
Couldn't find anything on this besides from Eran Ud Turan's twitter post. I'm not sure what the writing says. The "Iranian Huns", as they are sometimes called, wore a variety of crowns that were similar to Sassanid and Kushano-Sassanid images. I'm not sure what they are supposed to symbolize, exactly. Floral crowns seem to have 3, 5, or 10 flowers. Crescent crowns seem to have either 1 or 3 crescents. Radiant (solar) crowns seem to have either 3 or 5 triangular spikes. I was hoping to find an image of the 3-foot "horn" crown, but unfortunately had no luck:
"Of further note are records of, “Hephthalite kings who wore ‘a kind of horn 3 feet high’...”" (Sino-Platonic Paper #228. The “Silk Roads” in Time and Space: Migrations, Motifs, and Materials edited by Victor H. Mair. University of Pennsylvania).
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