La corona del dio. Nota sull’iconografia divina nel Protodinastico

Abstract

During the Early Dynastic Period the element that characterizes gods’ representations, thus
making them different from human-beings, is a particular hair-dress: the horned-crown. The
analysis here presented distinguishes at least three different types of divine hair-dresses - the
simple horned-crown, the Anzu-crown and the horned-crown with vegetable mid-element -,
showing how each one is linked to deities with a specific sphere of influence. In this way, it is
possible to hypothesize a development of the divine hair-dress from the simple horned-crown to
the multiple one.