Kulāf
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A kulāf, or kolāh, is a type of cap that designated Sasanian nobility and official.[3] It appears on numerous reliefs and seals of the Sasanian Empire period.[3]
The kulāf is often decorated with pearls, on the edge and on the surface of the cap.[3] It may also be shown with an emblem or tamgha on the surface.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ KURBANOV, AYDOGDY (2010). THE HEPHTHALITES: ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL ANALYSIS (PDF). Berlin: Berlin Freie Universität. p. 69, item 1).
- ^ Latest 5th-6th century CE date in Livshits (2000) LIVSHITS, V. A. (2000). "Sogdian Sānak, a Manichaean Bishop of the 5th–Early 6th Centuries" (PDF). Bulletin of the Asia Institute. 14: 48. ISSN 0890-4464. JSTOR 24049013.. According to earlier sources (Bivar (1969) and Livshits (1969), repeated by the British Museum) the seal was dated to the 300-350 CE in Naymark, Aleksandr. "SOGDIANA, ITS CHRISTIANS AND BYZANTIUM: A STUDY OF ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL CONNECTIONS IN LATE ANTIQUITY AND EARLY MIDDLE AGES" (PDF): 167.
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