Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c13.s6.49
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c13.s6.49
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Three other Kushāṇa heads are noteworthy for their peculiar headdress, viz. a helmet with two ram's recurved horns (e.g. No. 2564). This emblem signifies the ‘Iranian Majesty’ (Herzfeld, *Kushano-Sassanian Coins*, p. 22), and has been traced on the so-called Macedonian soldier type of coins of Kujula Kadphises I (Whitehead, PMC, Vol I, p. 173), and also at Mathura on the well known Indo-Persian capital found from the Chaubara mound, which has four winged animals with human heads adorned with ram's horns. [Figs. 161-64].