Images of Perseus with a phrygian hat
Reading David Ulansey’s Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries, I was struck by the following statement on p.26: However, in two of the earliest surviving pictures of the constellation Perseus — the Salzburg Plaque and Codex Vossianus Leidensis 79 — Perseus is shown wearing a Phrygian cap, demonstrating that this was a frequent attribute of Perseus the […]