Coin of Tigranes the Great, Tigranocerta mint. Struck circa 80-68 BC.

In scholarship, the term Armenian tiara is used to refer to a spikey tiara that was characteristic of the coinage of Armenia during the Late Hellenistic period.[1] It originated from the insignia used by the royal and satrapal authority in the Achaemenid Empire.[2] The best known example was the one worn by the Artaxiad king of Armenia, Tigranes the Great (r. 95–55 BC).[1]

The tiara was notably worn by Monobaz I, the king of Adiabene. It may have been done as part of propaganda to display that his kingdom had replaced Armenia as a regional power in the Near East.[3]

Antiochus I of Commagene (r. 70–31 BC), the king of Commagene, adopted this tiara as an insignia of dominant power. The tiara, which he calls a kitaris was seen by him as a manifestation of the Persian and Orontid legacies.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Marciak & Wójcikowski 2016, p. 89.
  2. ↑ Marciak & Wójcikowski 2016, pp. 89, 91.
  3. ↑ Marciak & Wójcikowski 2016, pp. 89–91.
  4. ↑ Canepa 2018, p. 241.

Sources

  • Canepa, Matthew (2018). The Iranian Expanse: Transforming Royal Identity Through Architecture, Landscape, and the Built Environment, 550 BCE–642 CE. Oakland: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520379206.
  • Marciak, Michał; Wójcikowski, R. (2016). "Images of Kings of Adiabene: Numismatic and Scultpural Evidence". Iraq. Cambridge University Press. IX: 79–101. doi:10.1017/irq.2016.8.
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